ok, so who won the Iraqi election?

[LSK]

Anyone? :shrug:

[Nickster]

1. Last thing I heard was the Shi'a religious blocks were stomping

everyone else. So I think we don't really want to know the details.

[LSK]

2. well, "supposedly" thats why we went there.....

At least revisionist history reason #235234523135.

[Nickster]

5. To install a Shi'a religious theocracy? Oh my! Did they actually admit to

that?:-)

[LSK]

6. not yet, soon thou

Maybe thats why its so hard to find out who won! ;)

[Fla Dem]

16. So true and with ties to Iran's Mullahs. Not what the Administration

was banking on. This is bad for the Mid-east and bad for the world. This is why the insurgency had escalated recently, and why whatever underground civil war is occurring now, will blossom into full scale war if the coalition troops ever leave.

[chelsea0011]

3. I thought it was the world.

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. No matter who "won", the others will continue fighting until doomsday.

It's what they do best over there.

[Richard Steele]

7. Whoever wins, it looks like "western-style democracy" lost.

[The_Casual_Observer]

8. You can bet that if it was good news for jr, we would have heard the

results a long time ago, over and over.

[pocket]

9. Iran

.

[pitohui]

12. that was what i was going to post EOM

.

[arcane1]

10. HAHA! That was a good one!

:rofl:

[InternalDialogue]

11. Straight answer:

Nearly every region of the country voted along strict sectarian lines. And though given the choice of a secular party to choose from, no region voted a majority to anything but the fundamentalist party (whether it was Kurdish, Shiite, or Sunni).

From the LA Times:

Nine out of 10 Iraqis in the Shiite Muslim provinces of the south voted for religious Shiite parties, according to the early results from the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq. Nine out of 10 Iraqis in Sunni Muslim Arab areas of central and western Iraq voted for Sunni parties. Nine out of 10 Iraqis in the Kurdish provinces of the north voted for Kurdish candidates. Nationwide, only about 9% voted for tickets that purported to represent all Iraqis.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-identity29dec29,0,3984218.story

[ChairmanAgnostic]

13. better answer. We haven't decided yet.

[InternalDialogue]

14. Who would have imagined the fundamentalist majority would win.

Whoops. Democracy is messy.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

18. Id' say no shit sherlock, but that's rude of me. No kidding.

Look what it got us. diaboldical democratic voting, I mean.

[LSK]

15. if that is so, why dont we just let them have their own countries

[InternalDialogue]

17. I get the feeling

they're going to take care of that themselves.