How To React More Temperately To The Iraqi Elections

So that was my penny's worth on the Iraqi elections. Or, more accurately, my penny's worth on other people's reaction to the Iraqi elections. Mark Mulholland has what I think is a very considerate, reasoned and sensible post on them. I think he might be a bit sanguine about the prospects for the insurgency dying down, but his basic conclusion, that it's going to be very difficult to justify the war consequentially, seems reasonable.