In Iraq, Saddam Hussein’s former subjects braved threats and voted for the first time with ballots that offered a choice of 70 political parties, rather than only one. Across the country, voters arrived on crutches and in donkey carts, passing by posters that threatened: “You vote, you die.”
在伊拉克，曾在萨达姆·侯赛因统治下的人们不畏威胁，第一次为一场由70个政党平均享有机会而非一个政党独霸大权的选举投票。全国各地的投票者们，路经着那些危言耸听地写着“投票者死”的海报，撑着拐杖、坐着毛驴拖车纷纷到达投票站点。投票者们明确反对极端主义分子的意识形态的态度给极端主义分子一个毁灭性的打击。