UN now backs elections in Iraq

[wellst0nev0ter]

The United Nations has opted to support calls from one of the main leaders of Iraq's Shiite Muslim community for early elections. The move to back Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani's insistance on one-person-one-vote over the US plans to hand back sovereignty took place amid heavy security in the wake of two recent suicide bombings that killed nearly 100 Iraqis.

In a nod to Sistani's rising influence, UN diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi announced the decision after a two-hour visit to the reclusive cleric's home in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, 90 miles south of Baghdad. Mr. Brahimi said that Sistani "is insistent on holding the elections and we are with him on this 100 percent because elections are the best means to enable any people to set up a state that serves their interest."

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[rfranklin]

1. But, George has to get out by June...

and there's no time to set up the BFEE flunkies and fix the elections by then!

[POed_Ex_Repub]

2. Uh oh

I don't think this is what George had in mind!

[Just Me]

4. This will totally foil the neocons' plan to control.

I'll bet we start hearing about how the UN is irrelevant, again :D

[sadiesworld]

3. Seems to me...

that Bushco can now blame the UN for the enevitable civil war and/or fudamentalist theocracy.

[tedzbear]

6. Still, it's better for the Iraqis if they can have a real election...

...as opposed to our own Supreme Court "fixed" kind.

:kick:

[blue agave]

5. Let me guess who will get the voting machine contract ...

Ah, Diebold ?

[NickB79]

7. I'm looking into my crystal ball now

I see the Shiite majority winning control of the Iraqi government. I see a theocracy based on a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam put into place. I see a bloody civil war with US troops caught in the middle raging on and on. I see the US turning their guns on the very people we just liberated.

Mr. Cleo has spoken.