Sunday, February 01, 2009

Iraqis Want to Vote

"A British newspaper says, "Landmark provincial elections to be held across Iraq on Saturday are being marred by widespread claims of vote-buying and intimidation, undermining faith in a ballot billed as the stirrings of democracy after four years of sectarian war."

We could just hang it up and forget the elections, which is what Iraqi critics would love to see.
But the newspaper says that the "Sunni bloc widely boycotted the last provincial polls in Iraq in January 2005, a move that was seen in retrospect as the impetus for a diminished role in Iraqi society and a spark for the lethal insurgency that raged for much of the next three years." Should the Sunnis give up on their vote? Iraqis don't think so."
IraqPundit

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