Shi'ite List Comes Top in Iraqi Election

Reuters via YahooNews ^ | Feb 13 2005 | Reuters

[pickemuphere]

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - An alliance of Shi'ite Islamist groups won the most votes in Iraq's election, but the percentage it received -- 47.6 percent -- was lower than many expected, according to the final tally released on Sunday.

A coalition of the two main Kurdish parties won 25.4 percent and a bloc led by Interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi got 13.6 percent.

Overall turnout was 8.55 million votes, which was 58 percent of those registered to vote. The Shi'ite United Iraqi Alliance won 4.075 million votes, the Kurds won 2.175 million and Allawi's list won 1.168 million, according to the tally released by the Electoral Commission.

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Within 7 years, it'll all be under sharia law and an islamic caliphate. Mark my words.

[goldstategop]

The Sistani-backed Shiite Alliance received less than a majority of the seats. To get a two-thirds majority, they'll need to strike a deal with the Kurds, who had a better than expected showing. Iraq's fledgling democracy is off to a good beginning. Now the politicians will begin the haggling to put together a coalition government.

Denny Crane: "There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News."

[Dane]

Within 7 years, it'll all be under sharia law and an islamic caliphate. Mark my words

Bookmarking, to prove your paleocon/leftist talking points for 2/13/05 wrong.

[steveegg]

Guess they gotta deal :-)

[DCPatriot]

Same Shi-ite... different day. Damn! ;^)

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"paleocon/leftist"?

That's a non-sequitur, D. Want to clarify and re-think that nametag?

Don't get me wrong, liberation, freedom and liberty is a grand and wonderful thing, and we did the right thing by going in there, but what did they get in return, in the final analysis? We don't yet know.

I cheered and cried, too, along with millions of other Americans, that Sunday that they voted.

The horror that is islam, will gradually take over and return them to a 6th century life. I have a bad feeling about it.

I truly hope I'm wrong.

[Wiz]

The good part of the multi-party parliament is that the majority has to respect minority parties and form a coalition when the majority is less than the numbers to pass bills, allowing minority to gain influence. I hope the Kurds will get what they want.

[Mark Felton]

"but what did they get in return, in the final analysis?

Every objective stated in HJR114 has been accomplished.

Hussein no longer poses a WMD threat. Nor will a future state of Iraq.

The US will maintain 14 permanent military bases in Iraq.

Iraq will maintain a Constitution giving individual human rights to every citizen.

Sistani has stated his government will be secular.

[Bobber58]

doesn't really matter, as long as they're not anti-west.
they were a broke-dick crackhouse with a thug pimp leader.
Now they see that we let people choose what they want for themselves, even if it's a steel-toed boot to the head.
they try this crap again in 20 years, we'll kick their rear-ends again. That's just life

[b4its2late]

Holy Shiite!

[Bobber58]

WHAT IS PALEOCONSERVATISM?

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"The US will maintain 14 permanent military bases in Iraq."

That for sure? Then maybe they do have a chance of not reverting to the horror of sharia law...

[McGavin999]

Sistani's group is NOT Islamist. Good grief, these guys are doing whatever they can to discourage people. There are clerics on the list, but the great majority of them are secular.

[Doofer]

The US will maintain 14 permanent military bases in Iraq.

And if they kindly ask us to leave?

[Oblongata]

What if it ends up as a constitutional theocracy? That would be interesting.

[angkor]

The US will maintain 14 permanent military bases in Iraq.

Shhhh. We're supposed to keep that Neocon plot a secret.

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Hope you guys are right. If so, I'll be righteously glad to retract my prediction. Time will tell.

[angkor]

And if they kindly ask us to leave?

Didn't you hear about the change in outlook last week? They've already stopped asking, even the man on the street.

They know the only way they're gonna' keep their government is to keep us there.

How long? Who knows.

[American in Israel]

Yeah, I figure you are right. But what the heck, it's their life, they can be full of Shi'ite if they want.