Freedom isn't free...

...and in the pending state of Kurdistan, it isn't even freedom...

NEW YORK Some Iraqi Christians say their kinsmen in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq weren't allowed to vote in Sunday's election.

Simon George, co-director of an Assyrian satellite television station, says he received "at least 100 calls" from Assyrians complaining about being deprived of the vote in Christian villages around Mosul (MOH'-sul). He says Assyrian Christians were promised ballot boxes that didn't arrive.

George said he was told that in the Assyrian villages, Kurds "stopped all the elections."

The best work of our best friends in Iraq.

Think they sent election observers to Ohio for instruction?