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Iraq elections, 2005, a photo gallery - This photo gallery was begun on December 19, 2004
Our Mission: Defeat Tyranny
The question for Iraqis in their January 30, 2005 historic election was, do you want freedom or not. Their answer was "yes." We watched the January 30 elections unfold in Iraq through a photo gallery begun on December 19, 2004, and updated nearly daily. It is now January 31, 2005, and we are closing the gallery out, mission accomplished by Iraqis, for Iraqis, with American help. Everyone sacrificed, Iraqis, Americans, and those in the Coalition that freed Iraq. God's speed Iraq, you did it! Bravo!
"V" for victory. An Iraqi woman holds up her hand, and shows a purple finger, indicating she has just voted, as she leaves a polling station in the centre of Az Zubayr, Iraq. Photo credit: Andrew Parsons, AP
Dancin' in the streets. U.S. Army Spc. Luke Saunders dances with Iraqi policemen as they celebrate the arrival of a convoy of ballots from a polling station to a central collection point in Baghdad, Iraq, Jan. 31, 2005. Saunders is with the 443rd Civil Affairs Battalion and is from Green Bay, WI. Photo credit: John Moore, AP
Iraqi policemen celebrate as a convoy of ballots arrives from a polling station to a central collection point in Baghdad, Iraq, Jan. 31, 2005. Iraqi and American forces escorted election officials, ballots and tally sheets to central collection points for tabulation of Sunday's landmark election. Photo credit: John Moore, AP
An Iraqi woman cries tears of joy after casting her vote, outside a polling station in the holy city of Najaf, Jan. 30, 2005. Photo credit: Faleh Kheiber, Reuters
Insurgents tried, but...U.S. Army soldiers take cover after an insurgent sniper wounded an Iraqi man near a polling station in Mosul, Iraq on election day, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2005. Photo credit: Jim MacMillan, AP
An Iraqi man votes at a polling station in Mosul, Iraq on election day, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2005. Prior battle damage marks the wall. Photo credit: Jim MacMillan, AP
Iraqi's queue at a school polling station in the At Maeel area of Basra, southern Iraq, January 30, 2005, as the country holds its first elections. Some came on crutches, others walked for miles then struggled to read the ballot, but across most of Iraq millions turned out to vote Sunday, defying insurgent threats of a bloodbath. Photo credit: Toby Melville, Reuters
Enemy shoots voter. An Iraqi man gets help from a U.S. Army medic after he was shot in the face by an insurgent near a polling station in Mosul, Iraq on election day, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2005. He was rushed to a local hospital and is expected to survive. Photo credit: Jim MacMillan, AP
An Iraqi girl looks out of the women's queue at a school polling station in the At Maeel area of Basra, southern Iraq Sunday, Jan. 30, 2005. Iraqis defied threats of violence and calls for a boycott to cast ballots in Iraq's first free election in a half-century. Photo credit: Toby Melville, AP
Two elderly Iraqi women comfort each other on their way to a polling station in Baghdad, Iraq , Sunday, Jan 30, 2005 to vote in their country's first free election in a half-century. Photo credit: Samir Mizban, AP
An Iraqi elderly woman registers her name in a polling station in the holy city of Najaf, January 30, 2005. Photo credit: Faleh Kheiber, Reuters |
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