Democracy in Iraq.
A string of bombings on Sunday targeted political offices of those parties willing to contest the March 7 parliamentary elections, including secular Sunnis. The violence comes as one more worry in the course of Iraq's most controversial election.Al-Hayat reports in Arabic that over a hundred (145) candidates for parliament were disqualified from running by the Appellate Board for their alleged ties to Baathism.
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Salih Mutlak, Sunni, secular head of the National Dialogue Bloc, who had sat in parliament and led a contingent of 11 MPs, is among the more important of the 145 whose appeals were rejected. There are no obvious connections between him and 'Baathism' today, unless by that term is just meant anyone with a secular, Arab nationalist outlook.
The Battle of Marja about to begin[...]
The press likes short wars. Its audience is never so eager for news as during an armed conflict. [...] And it is this very eagerness to report the fighting that makes it so easy to manipulate. The US army successfully sold the “surge” in Iraq as a military victory so that the American public scarcely noticed that US troops were withdrawing, leaving Iraq in the hands of a government closely allied to Iran.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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