Was This Man Nearly President of the United States?

Nah, couldn't be.

"It is significant that there is a vote in Iraq," Kerry said in an interview with NBC television's Meet the Press. "But ... 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," Kerry said. "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," he said.

We're already successful in Iraq, bub. The international community is as irrelevant to that success as the Democratic Party and their empty-suit, empty-headed candidates.

It didn't have to be so, but it is. Perhaps if the Senator Kerry (D-Absent) would loan Allawi his Magic Hat, things would proceed more quickly.

If the elections didn't matter, why was the Zarqawi-Kennedy axis so desperate to stop them?