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  • Now Comes the Hard Part: Forming a Government, Winning Trust (AP News Analysis/Hand Wringing)

    01/30/2005 4:06:07 PM PST · by Brian Mosely · 20 replies · 487+ views
    Associated Press | Jan 30, 2005 | Robert H. Reid
    BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq pulled off an election against all odds and the best efforts of insurgents to blow it up. Now comes the hard part: forming a new governing coalition, writing a constitution and winning trust. Achieving those goals will be tough because the election was tempered by the absence of many of the Sunni Arabs, who honored a boycott call and avoided the polls. Without Sunni support, even among those who stayed home on election day, the new leadership is unlikely to win the public support necessary to quell the insurgency and speed the day when 150,000...