dont forget stalin won

The next nominee is Iraq’s most influential Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Al Sistani.

Originally opposed to democratic elections (which could weaken religious control), just prior to yesterday’s elections Sistani issued a fiat ordering all his followers to vote in the new elections.

His 3 instructions were simple: turn out to vote on the day; avoid voting for any list whose leader is not religious; and avoid voting for “weak” lists so as not to split the Shia vote.

In response, Sunni religious leaders were compelled to issue an identical fiat ordering their followers to the polls under the same Sunni provisions. (They also realized that the boycott of the previous election was a major political faux pas).

The real players have finally bought into the “game” (democratic elections). With America holding access to the countries infrastructure and critical resources based upon the results of the elections, the players may have no choice but to abide by the rules simply to keep from getting cut out of their representative piece of the Iraqi pie.

I can already hear Senator Murphy singing to Congress:

“What are we going to tell our public?”
“What are we going to tell our friends?”
“What are we going to tell the press,
when they say: 'What a mess!'?”

“Wake up my little snoozie.”
“Wake up my little snoozie.”
“It’s time to go home.”

While this is a bit off topic, ....

I'm with you here. But we have really got to stop dumping our resources overseas before we can finally get back to tackling our own pressing domestic issues.

Sure it's a lousy situation. Nobody denies that. Still, the plain truth is that right now (for whatever reasons) we are in so deep that we will simply have to keep on going until Iraq finally tilts one way or the other.

You evidently dont read the news--George W. Bush stole the election