Shiite Vote Plan Would Exclude 'Sunni Triangle'

[wellst0nev0ter]

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Feb. 17 — Shiite leaders are pushing a new plan for the transfer of power in Iraq that calls for partial elections, with balloting in the relatively secure Shiite and Kurdish areas but not in the more turbulent "Sunni triangle."

The proposal, which has grown out of an emerging alliance between Kurdish and Shiite political parties, is part of the intensifying scramble for power among politicians before the United Nations announcement, expected this week, on whether election are feasible in Iraq.

But partial elections, American officials said, would further alienate the Sunnis, who are already generating most of the violence against the Americans and their Iraqi allies.

"Allowing citizens from some regions to vote and disenfranchising others certainly does not inspire credibility and legitimacy," a senior American official in Baghdad said.

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I don't know about you, but I'm sure loving all the peace and democracy the neocon experiment is causing in Eye-Rack

[KissMyAsscroft]

1. Where's Katherine Harris?

nt

[countmyvote4real]

2. lol You are too funny.

That's very ironic.

I hope that I'm not using broad strokes to express my appreciation. BTW, I don't think you are a member of a cult, but if you are, I would join.

Can you tell that I've been spanked? (And I'm not saying by whom.)

[Barrett808]

3. Yeah, really - get Diebold and Choicepoint/DBT in there

That'll help.