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December 21, 2005
Bush Thrown So Far Back He May Be Out of the Stadium
I will have more on this later, but The Independent paints a very disturbing picture of the emerging outcome of the Iraq elections. I hope things are not as bad as described. Time will tell on this one.
Iraq is disintegrating. The first results from the parliamentary election last week show the country is dividing between Shia, Sunni and Kurdish regions.
Religious fundamentalists now have the upper hand. The secular and nationalist candidate backed by the US and Britain was humiliatingly defeated.
The Shia religious coalition has won a total victory in Baghdad and the south of Iraq. The Sunni Arab parties who openly or covertly support armed resistance to the US are likely to win large majorities in Sunni provinces. The Kurds have already achieved quasi-independence and their voting reflected that.
The election marks the final shipwreck of American and British hopes of establishing a pro-Western secular democracy in a united Iraq.
Posted by Chip Spear at December 21, 2005 1:31 PM