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To: lurqer who wrote (32305)	12/6/2003 6:46:51 PM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (1) of 89467

On one hand, most Americans would question why so much blood was spilled to achieve For many Iraqi officials, an unspoken fear hovers like a wraith in the background of every debate over the popular elections that are supposed to take place here in June. It is that the Iraqi people — roiled by the fall of a brutal dictatorship, followed immediately by subjugation to a sometimes bumbling occupation force — will elect a theocratic Islamic government. When Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the most influential Shiite cleric in Iraq, spoke out a week ago, calling for full national elections instead of the caucus-style balloting envisioned in the American plan for self-rule, most secular politicians concluded that he hoped the voters would elect a theocracy. At least 60 percent of the nation is Shiite, after all. "A lot of people are mostly afraid that the Islamists want to have direct elections because they believe clergymen will be the new government in Iraq," said Sheik Ghazi Ajil al-Yawar, an independent member of the Iraqi Governing Council. ... from nytimes.com OTOH, to preclude this possibility may well require much more blood. JMO lurqer

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