Iraqi Shiite Muslim Coalition Wins Most Votes in Poll (Update1)
Feb. 13 (Bloomberg) – The Shiite Muslim coalition won the most votes in Iraq’s National Assembly elections with 47.6 percent of the ballot. The result falls short of the two-thirds majority needed to form a government and indicates that a coalition administration may be formed around a secular figure such as interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi.
*Well whatya know a recount and millions of votes, bombs and murder and by a quirk of fiddling numbers and eventualities the US stooge is still up for running Iraq-US plc.
Even though alawi only got one vote and that was from his aunt on his mothers side, the rest of the family voted for a goat.*
It's a heck of lot closer to being democratic representation than the 20/80 under Saddam, anywhere else in the non-Jewish Middle East, Pakistan, Egypt and a lot of other places.
And who decides what form of government is best for which country? The US? lmao. No wonder they have had their thumbs in their asses while a dictatorship has been running in countries like Saudi Arabia for the past 50+ years. Nor were they too concerned with Afghanistan when the CIA was all chummy chummy with them and Bin Laden actually had America's balls in his hands.
^^As you grow up you will see and meet people that need to be guided, well my Khana the Ummah happens to be filled with people that need guidance. Once intelligent people like you, AK, Abdali, Thap, CM (ofcourse), Uncle Che grow up and graduate high school, maybe you all can lead the Ummah to better prosperity and true governance (that speaks for the people not for a particular religion). Till them let the silly Americans(which are highly productive and caring) provide feedback to these idiotic regimes that keep supressing people for no good reason.
yeah Ma Maooli, but what's important to watch is the reaction of the Shia leadership.. I have a feeling they'll play along with this.. it's left upto the Sunnis' alone to keep resisting the occupation..
Then it will be the Sunnis alone who will be left out of the democratic process.
I suppose it's not an easy transition going from the ruling minority class to just having the power and influence that having only 20% represents in the real world. But "keep resisting the occupation" and they won't even have 20% representation.
i'm sure the Sunnis will participate in elections if held by Iraqis themselves.. not under some foreign power.. Shias of Iraq however just wanted to grab power that had eluded them under Saddam.. they didn't care if it came under an occupation.
Kind of a conflict when you say you don't want to have elections while 'under some foreign power' while doing everything you can to ensure the US stays there. Can't blame the Shias for particpating, it's a pretty smart move. Especially when compared to the Sunni strategy.
Lest we forget where we came from, seems to me I remember a few airmchair jihadis ranting about the Shia/Sunni solidarity in the resistance a while ago. Then we had Sadr, and his little uprising. Anybody want to bring those topics up again?
The reality is that 80% of the country wants peace, and a violent minority who have been the "oppressors" for 35 years are now pretty isolated. How long will it be before Iraqis get really tired of being blown up in the streets by these maniacs. They cannot maintain the support of the population with these types of actions, they are simply killing too many innocent Iraqi's. It may take some time for the Shia to get thier act together, but eventually the Government will have enough security forces to deal with the insurgents. People will start ratting them out when it is in their best interest. The one constant of the people of the Middle East is that they like to back the winner. If it becomes apparent that the Government will prevail, the citizens will start turning these guys in by the hundreds. A capture of Zarkowi would cut the number of fighters in half the next month.... Patience.
imagine OG getting all whipped by the Shia’s in Iraq.. wait till they allign more with Iran and/or ask the US to give a timetable for departure.. we’ll see how much OG likes them then..
