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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (71843)	12/22/2005 8:52:56 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

You read what I posted correctly. But you missed the entire point since you ignored this phrase "no place for Washington's preferred candidate". I presume that you are a smart person to have missed that. Instead, what you tried to do is to put a spin. The phrase I mention clearly indicates that Bush is meddling in their affairs, that he trying to impose his will on them and they will not have any of it. Allawi , as we know, is more secular than those mullah backed candidates, who like Bush and Cheney are religious extremists. And I would say just sit back and watch the Christian extremist Bush and Cheney battle the Muslim extremists elected by the Iraqis.

To: lorne who wrote (71843)	12/22/2005 12:15:50 PM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

Iraq's election result: a divided nation Iraq is disintegrating. The first results from the parliamentary election last week show the country is dividing between Shia, Sunni and Kurdish regions. Religious fundamentalists now have the upper hand. The secular and nationalist candidate backed by the US and Britain was humiliatingly defeated. The Shia religious coalition has won a total victory in Baghdad and the south of Iraq. The Sunni Arab parties who openly or covertly support armed resistance to the US are likely to win large majorities in Sunni provinces. The Kurds have already achieved quasi-independence and their voting reflected that. The election marks the final shipwreck of American and British hopes of establishing a pro-Western secular democracy in a united Iraq. Islamic fundamentalist movements are ever more powerful in both the Sunni and Shia communities. Ghassan Attiyah, an Iraqi commentator, said: "In two and a half years Bush has succeeded in creating two new Talibans in Iraq."... ...The US ambassador in Baghdad, Zilmay Khalilzad, sounded almost despairing yesterday as he reviewed the results of the election. "It looks as if people have preferred to vote for their ethnic or sectarian identities," he said. "But for Iraq to succeed there has to be cross-ethnic and cross-sectarian co-operation."... ..."People underestimate how religious Iraq has become," said one Iraqi observer. "Iran is really a secular society with a religious leadership, but Iraq will be a religious society with a religious leadership." Already most girls leaving schools in Baghdad wear headscarves. Women's rights in cases of divorce and inheritance are being eroded... ...The elections are also unlikely to see a diminution in armed resistance to the US by the Sunni community. Insurgent groups have made clear that they see winning seats in parliament as the opening of another front. The break-up of Iraq has been brought closer by the election. The great majority of people who went to the polls voted as Shia, Sunni or Kurds - and not as Iraqis. The forces pulling Iraq apart are stronger than those holding it together. The election, billed by Mr Bush and Mr Blair as the birth of a new Iraqi state may in fact prove to be its funeral. news.independent.co.uk