Allawi's Party Wins Plurality - Whither To Now Iraq?

David Horowitz's NewsRealBlog.com ^ | March 27, 2010 | John L. Work

[JLWORK]

Pending decisions on motions for re-counts yet to be filed by current Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi’s (photo above) al-Iraqiya party has won a two-seat-margin plurality in the past week’s parliamentary elections. Assuming the election results do not change, Allawi must increase his control from 89 to 163 seats in order to again become Prime Minister. He will have to negotiate both with the Kurds, who won 43 positions, and with Moqtada al-Sadr’s Iraqi National Alliance, which controls 70. Yesterday’s New York Times published an analysis of the election results, interestingly broken down mostly along Sunni v. Shiite sectarian lines. More on that further down the page. With thanks to NRB’s Ryan Mauro, the NYT story is here:

[crz]

Ya know. If Iraq could only quit the BS they could become the most wealthy nation in the mid east. They got energy, a lot of the fertile crescent and history-all which could spell wealth well beyond their wildest dreams.

[mono]

My quick read of this is we fought a war to oust Saddams secular Sunni led government and now they have voted in a secular Sunni led government. Well, at least there is no dictator.......yet.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

You are, of course, correct but as long as they are dominated by Islam they will barely get out of the 6th century.

[Wuli]

The best outcome for Iraq would be one where:

Maliki 1st obtained the support of the Kurdish political groups, and working together they got Allawi to join them in a parliamentary alliance, which would probably include assurances of a prominent position in the government for Allawi as well.

The difficulty for Maliki and Allawi would be what separate promises to the Kurds and to the Sunnis were necessary to produce the alliance, against conflicting Kurdish and Sunni hopes and demands in places like Kirkuk.

Let’s pray the majority of Iraqi’s continue to use the political process for change, instead of more violence.