[lit-ideas] Time for the Bush team to steal another election
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Lit-Ideas" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 22:58:49 -0800
Baghdad -- Partial results from Sunday's election suggest that U.S.-backed
Prime Minister
Ayad Allawi's coalition is being roundly defeated by a list with the backing of
Iraq's
senior Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al- Sistani, diminishing Allawi's
chances of
retaining his post in the next government.
"Americans are in for a shock. We've got 150,000 troops here protecting a
country that's
extremely friendly to Iran, and training their troops."
The partial totals so far show the Iraqi List headed by Allawi, a secular
Shiite and onetime
CIA protege, trailed far behind with only 18 percent of the votes, despite an
aggressive
television ad campaign waged with U.S. aid. A lopsided majority of votes, 72
percent, went
to the United Iraqi Alliance list, topped by a Shiite cleric who lived in Iran
for many
years and whose Sciri party has close ties to Iran's clerical regime. More than
a third of
the alliance's vote came from Baghdad, the cosmopolitan capital where Allawi
had been
expected to fare well.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/02/04/MNGSMB5MDT1.DTL
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
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