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Robert Fisk on Iraq Elections: Iraqis Voting for "Freedom From Foreign Occupation"

Robert Fisk on Iraq Elections: Iraqis Voting for "Freedom From Foreign Occupation"

A day after elections in Iraq, we go to Baghdad to speak with Robert Fisk, chief Middle East correspondent for the London Independent. Fisk says, "What this election has done is not actually a demonstration of people who demand democracy, but they want freedom of a different kind, freedom to vote, but also freedom from foreign occupation. And if they are betrayed in this, then we are going to look back and regret the broken promises. [includes rush transcript]

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