From the Opinion Journal's Best of the Web, James Taranto, writes in Iraqis Fight Back--and Dance about a little story this where some Iraqis in a village just south of Baghdad fought back when some terrorists came to punish them for voting -- five terrorists dead and eight more wounded. Taranto says:

It's quite understandable that Iraqis would be bolder about standing up to the terrorists now than they were last year. Just over three months ago, after all, there was a possibility, no matter how remote, that John Kerry would be elected president, which could have led to an American retreat from Iraq. Iraqis naturally kept their heads down, lest they suffer the same fate as the Vietnamese allies America abandoned at Kerry's urging three decades earlier.

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