Imagine risking it all to vote. I don't mean figuratively nor am I speaking metaphorically. In Iraq, at least 25 people have died this weekend just attempting to vote in their national election.
And they kept coming after the attacks.
The violence and acts of cowardly terrorism didn't halt men and women from leaving their homes and risking their lives in order to participate in Democracy. Some had to walk because of a ban on cars, yet still they came. Polling places were blown up, mortars fired and still they came to vote.
Sahib Jabr, a 34 year old taxi driver, said defiantly "We came to participate in this National Day
and we don't care about the explosions."
and we don't care about the explosions."
Kind of makes it sound silly when you hear people say they "didn't have the time to vote" doesn't it?
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