An Iraqi voting for the first time weeps because his son, whom Saddam murdered in the 1991 uprising, is not alive to see it.
Won't be in Michael Moore's next movie, or Teddy Kennedy's next speech.
May his son rest in peace.
Update: I had to post the photo myself, here.
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