What's Next After Iraqi Elections? Look East!

On the eve of The Day That Will Never Come, Iraqi Election Day, we draw our gentle readers' attention to the following:

• The Washington Post, of all things, today runs a brilliant column by Marine Major Ben Connable entitled "The Truth on the Ground," which asks the nonmusical question, why do 64% of American military officers believe that we will succeed in Iraq when 60% of American civilians think it's time to leave? Speaking as an officer with extensive experience in Iraq, Connable asserts, "The impression of Iraq as an unfathomable quagmire is false and dangerously misleading."
• In a speech broadcast live on state television, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad referred to the Holocaust as a "fabricated ... legend."
• On the border between Iraq and Iran, a tanker truck loaded with forged Iraqi ballots was seized as it made its way from Iran to Iraq. American and British military officials have previously said that sophisticated explosive devices are coming from Iran into Iraq as well.

Put it together and what have you got? We need to stay in Iraq, not just to establish the first Arab democracy in the Middle East, which overall is going quite nicely, thank you, but to keep it from becoming greater Iran, which is to say greater Insane-istan.