Purple Fingers Turning Black

Ten days after the elections in Iraq.

Shiites win a majority, and Iran is our new best friend.
NO one is of course surprised, but the next time I hear anyone saying that we brought freedom to Iraq, I think I'm going to scream. What we brought them is an Islamic Republic, just like the one down the street in Iran. Many of the people who leave comments here like to say stupid things like "Vive Iraq!", but I'm not sure they would find it too comfortable living by religious law. Particularly if you happen to be a woman.


Sunni Arabs cry fraud as early election results cement Iraq's sectarian divide.
Hey don't the losers always cry fraud? Look at the Democrats in the last two Presidential elections. But democrats in America aren't armed to the teeth (thank God) and not disenfranchised enough (yet) to make killing their fellow countrymen attractive enough to risk jail time. Any hopes of having all of the many factions of Iraq participating in a government that represents all of the groups that make up Iraq are looking pretty dismal today.

And the violence continues.
"RAMADI - A U.S. Marine was killed by gunfire in Ramadi on Sunday, the U.S. military said on Monday."
ATTACK ON US MILITARY.KIRKUK - Gunmen attacked offices of the Turkmen Front on Sunday in the northern city of Kirkuk. A guard was killed and three others wounded . . . ETHNIC UNCONVENTIONAL CIVIL WAR, PROBABLY BETWEEN TURKMEN (SUPPORTED BY TURKEY) AND THE KURDS, WHO WANT TO DOMINATE KIRKUK-- AN OIL CITY. THIS CONFLICT COULD EASILY SPIN OUT OF CONTROL AND BECOME INTERNATIONAL."
BAGHDAD - Gunmen opened fire on the convoy of Baghdad deputy governor Ziyad al-Zawbai in the southern Amil district of the city, police said. Three of his bodyguards were killed, al- Zawbai and his secretary were wounded."
ATTACK ON HIGH BAGHDAD OFFICIAL, DESPITE HIS BODYGUARDS. RELATIVELY SUCCESSFUL."BAGHDAD - An Iraqi police colonel escaped assassination when a suicide car bomber detonated his explosives as the colonel's convoy was passing in the Iskan district. Two civilians were killed. The colonel, two of his bodyguards and five civilians were wounded." ATTACK ON NEW IRAQI POLICE-- RELATIVELY SUCCESSFUL."BAGHDAD - Two children were wounded when gunmen opened fire on a minibus they were travelling in in the Mansour district . . ."
PROBABLY A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY."BALAD - Gunmen killed two Iraqi contractors who were travelling to a U.S military base near Balad . . ."
ATTACK ON THOSE IRAQIS CODED BY THE GUERRILLAS AS COLLABORATORS. SUCCESSFUL."MIQDADIYA - A car bomb exploded in Miqdadiya, a town 90 km northeast of Baghdad. Four civilians were wounded, one of them seriously. . .""
BASRA - An adviser to the defence minister said he escaped assassination when a makeshift bomb went off near his convoy in the southern city of Basra. Three of his bodyguards were wounded."
ATTACK ON THE MINISTRY OF DEFENSE, HEADED BY SUNNI SAADOUN DULAIMI. FAILED.

So the elections succeeded, but peace did not.

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