"They decided in three different elections when up to 12 million Iraqis braved life and limb to vote."
And they selected the Islamic Al-Dawa party, founded by Muqtada al-Sadr's uncle to run their government. Islamic Al-Dawa is a Shiite fundamentalist political party.
So what? As long as they abide by their own Constitution, there won't be a problem.
The Party that won the most seats in the Dec 2005 elections with 128 seats [41%] out of 275 was the United Iraqi Alliance. The alliance formed in the lead up to the January 2005 elections from mainly Shi'ite groups most importantly the Islamic Al-Da'wa Party and Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq. Other important members included the secular Iraqi National Congress led by Ahmed Chalabi, which has since left the coalition, and nuclear physicist Hussain Shahristani. It also included supporters of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr who preferred not to back his National Independent Cadres and Elites party, and a number of independent Sunni representatives.
The coalition was widely believed to have been supported by senior Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the most widely respected religious figure in Iraq, and although the Ayatollah has offered no official endorsement, many in Iraq understand the UIA to be "al-Sistani's list."