That took guts

I admire the people who turned out for the Iraqi elections today. We Democrats need to get our ideas straightened out so that they don't conflict with praising wholeheartedly an event like today's. Criticism has to be smarter than simple opposition of and attempts to undermine Bush. Things like this from Senator Kerry don't cut it:

No one in the United States should try to overhype this election. This election is a sort of demarcation point, and what really counts now is the effort to have a legitimate political reconciliation, and it's going to take a massive diplomatic effort and a much more significant outreach to the international community than this administration has been willing to engage in. Absent that, we will not be successful in Iraq.