Bush Succeeds in Installing Religious, Pro-Iran Rule in Iraq?
As Bush's poll number jump, many are citing the recent election in Iraq as a significant accomplishment for this administration. While democratic elections in Iraq are certainly historic, we need to pause and see what the outcome of those elections is going to be. According to the Washington Post:The preliminary returns pointed toward an Iraqi government that would be led for the next four years by a conservative Shiite religious alliance that has close ties to Iran... In the south -- where nearly all ballots had been counted in most of the provinces -- the United Iraqi Alliance, the main Shiite electoral grouping, swept the voting, outpolling second-place Allawi by a margin of 10 to 1.Oh dear; that's not good! The article goes on to say that the secular group led by Allawi is claiming massive fraud in the election. This leaves, as W would say, only two options. Either the US has just installed a conservative religious government with ties to Iran, or the election was rigged by that group, demonstrating that the US has been unsuccessful in its goal of fair elections. Neither of these options is particularly appealing.
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