[jpl]

This is the sort of thing that happens when you put the cart before the horse. At some point down the road we're going to have no choice but to end up threatening to obliterate most of these Middle Eastern countries anyway, just as we had to threaten to obliterate Germany and Japan in WWII in order to civilize them. What the Iraqi consitution says doesn't make much of a difference at this point.

I think it was a noble, but misguided, effort.

[jmc1969]

Some of the people here are forgetting what a democracy means, it means that the people of that country get to chose their government.

Reports from Iraq are that Shia are very unhappy with the moral rules of the UIA and their failure to maintain security and plan on voting in much larger numbers for Allawi a secular Shia in the next election.

The Sunnis will likely vote this time as well and they will likely form a coalition government with Allawi, and some Kurds. The secular forces are looking good for the next election.