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Illegitimate election? AAAAAAAAARGH!

I am sooooo very tired of hearing the elitist (read "Liberal") verdict that moving forward with elections in Iraq as planned will make the elections illegitimate. If political parties in Iraq boycott the election, how can Iraq possibly go forward with a legal election? *gasp!*

A BBC article quotes an Iraqi politician on this very thing:

"It is unthinkable that a large and important section of Iraqi society be left out of the political process," said Adnan Pachachi, a senior secular politician at the head of the drive to postpone elections, on Saturday."

Mr. Pachachi would do well to study US history. It is thinkable... heck, the not-so-United States of America in 1864 certainly managed to do it. Anyone, other than Foghorn Leghorn, want to claim that the re-election of President Lincoln during the Civil War was illegitimate?

I suggest that Mr. Pachachi and any other Iraqi party leaders who would like to better understand democracy actually participate in it before claiming what can and cannot be thinkable... Oh yeah, and the socialist European elitists might want to revisit that little bit of history as well. Now, enough already -- knock it off with that "illegitimate" nonsense.

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El Jefe Maximo said…
The Sunni Iraqis as a group seem to have a political death wish. They seem utterly unable to comprehend the concept "Bottom rail on top now, Boss." Their stupid resistance has failed -- the US election results should have taught them that. They would do well to participate in the political process and try to serve as the balance between Shiites and Kurds. As it is, they are handing the Shiites a sword -- complete political control of the country, which they will use to take revenge for almost 80 years of uncontested political abuse at the hands of the Sunni governing class.
12/10/2004 08:43:00 PM
Rena Bernard said…
Seems to me that the Sunnis were supposed to be the peaceable Muslims. I dated a Kurd who had moved to the US shortly after Hussein took power. He had relatives die in the Halabjah(?) when Hussein gassed the village. He swore up and down that the Sunnis were the "good guys." It will be interesting to watch them cave when the elections come... I'll be watching this one VERY closely indeed.
12/11/2004 03:54:00 AM
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