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Originally posted by CaramonLS@Sep 30 2004, 12:24 AM
Sure cow... when the offical Iraqi ballot is released we shall see how many of them are "extremists" and "not US friendly".
And when the next leader is elected whether by the CIA or the people... we will see.
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See you at the finish line then.
An early hint of how you might see candidates selected has actually already occurred in Iraq. Chaotic, flawed, animated. . . . .
The best descriptions are at the bottom of the linked article, including:
For weeks, at caucuses across the country, thousands of Iraqis competed for election to the conference, and for the say that would give them in shaping the country's political future. A two-week postponement of the gathering, ordered in hopes of broadening participation, did not yield the hoped-for breakthroughs, particularly in persuading influential Sunni Muslim groups or al-Sadr, to abandon their boycott of the process.
Still, the turnout exceeded the goal of at least 1,000 delegates.
The focus on Najaf and al-Sadr delayed other business at the conference. The delegates were supposed to select a 100-member interim national assembly by Tuesday. By the end of the day Sunday, they had not even agreed on the rules by which members would be elected.
In speech after speech throughout the day, delegates called for an end to U.S. and Iraqi military operations against al-Sadr.
That's a pretty strange rubber stamp.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...MNGUB88JUQ1.DTL
A further description in the Guardian, including flaws
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story...286157,00.html
And an Economist article describing the delegate selection process preceding the conference.
http://www.economist.com/displayStor...ory_id=2970708
Sorry but to be quite honest I don't think the US is going to pack up and leave, especially with all the money they are putting into constructing ways to get the Oil out of the ground.
What is Iraq going to do? Not sell oil? Its all they have. If I'm not mistaken, the USA was buying most of Saddam's oil under the disgraced UN Oil For Food program.
Cowperson