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From the BBC's (Don't) Have Your Say website are concerning the Iraqi national election , the following comment was placed on top of the dogpile:

The election process has been rejected by a high percentage of Iraqis, this spells doom for democracy in Iraq. Classifying voters as either Sunnis, Shias or Kurds will produce a very unstable Iraq for many years to come.

Thanks for the shot in the arm, sparky. I'm sure the commenter can't wait for doom to fill his emotional void. Since when is 72% participation a large rejection? It's as high as every presidential election in France since 1969. It's higher than the last two parliamentary elections in the UK. In fact, it's higher than the turnout for every French Parliamentary election held since 1958. In that case, obviously none of those elections should be concidered legitimate.

The overwelming majority of the opinions posted are positive about the election, like this one which actually disproves what the Beeb has been reporting/promoting all day:

I have just spoken with an Iraqi Sunni friend in Baghdad and he told me how so many people in his neighbourhood are so happy! The insurgents, not the Americans, are the real problem in the country. This election is not about the US controlling oil, it's about giving the Iraqis the right to choose. We will leave Iraq in the next few years, God willing. And I pray for all those Iraqis who have the courage to stand up to the insurgents, who are the ones who are killing the Iraqi people and security forces. Wake up Europe and the rest of the world. Just because you don't like George Bush, it doesn't mean that you have to denounce this day.

Meanwhile, back in the Netherlands, the "root cause" is found to all of this pessimism, anticipation, nay, hope for failure, royal badness, bad juju, and nasty funk. In fact they seem quite resigned to doom and bad juju, in spite of modern dentistry, high quality Lebanese Red, and an endless supply of psychiatric care -

Depressed?
You will be...Finally, De Telegraaf adds to the gloomy mood by saying we've never in history been so depressed as now. More and more Dutch people find it difficult to cope with life - almost 23 percent admit to having problems. But contrary to what one might think, the paper says the murder of Theo van Gogh hasn't had much of an impact. A much more plausible reason for the rise, says De Telegraaf, is that psychiatrists and other therapists have been so eager to help in recent years that they're convincing more and more people to believe they're having problems.

If they can't be happy with themselves, Europeans need to stop being such a huge buzz-kill.