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The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: The Country We've Got

Tom Friedman's writings on the pending Iraqi elections have been incredibly helpful to me over the last few weeks. Do you remember back when Jon Stewart helped us all understand our ambivalence about the Iraq war when he said that those who couldn't celebrate the capture of Saddam Hussein were lost to the ideological Left, and those who didn't feel at least a little bit wrong about the way the whole thing happened were lost to the ideological Right?

Well, Friedman has even more articulately laid out both why we must support elections in Iraq, now, and why we understandably feel so wrong and worried about it. The best piece he wrote by far on this was two weeks ago, but today's is terrifically helpful, I think, for folks like me, who just plain didn't know whether or not we should support elections on 30 January, or postponing those elections until later.