Dangerous games.

"Was the Iraqi vote successful? I was asked by an Iraqi-American friend prior to the election whether I think the Iraqi vote would be successful or not. At that time I answered my friend saying that it will be successful in terms of participation and I estimated it to him to be more than 60% but I also thought that it won't be successful if we consider success to be a true democratic election that results in a stable democracy"
Free Iraqi

Ali has an important post, that looks a little deeper into what's going on right now on the political front, were it appears that the trenches are dug deep into the ethnic soil of Iraq.