To: jmc1969
Does this now give the new Allawi coalition a majority, or is Sistani still in the lead?
3 posted on
02/12/2005 11:33:32 AM PST by
Buck W.
(Yesterday's Intelligentsia are today's Irrelevantsia.)
To: Buck W.
I don't think we'll know until tomorrow. Sistani may get a simple majority. Even then, infighting between Dawa (more secular) and the SCIRI (more Islamist) may cause them to lose the majority. It's not inconceivable that some Dawa delegates may jump ship and join a secular Allawi-Kurdish alliance.
5 posted on
02/12/2005 11:43:56 AM PST by
oldleft
To: Buck W.
THe UIA is not run by Sistani.
9 posted on
02/12/2005 12:30:35 PM PST by
rwfromkansas
("War is an ugly thing, but...the decayed feeling...which thinks nothing worth war, is worse." -Mill)
To: Buck W.
I just mention that because there is a perception that the UIA is bought and paid for by the clerics, but that is not true.
10 posted on
02/12/2005 12:32:29 PM PST by
rwfromkansas
("War is an ugly thing, but...the decayed feeling...which thinks nothing worth war, is worse." -Mill)
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