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	Elections in Iraq
		In contrast to January's election of an interim National Assembly, a large turnout is expected today in the Sunni-populated areas of Iraq where the armed insurgency is based.
		Unlike October's constitutional referendum, the parliamentary vote inherently strengthens the cause of a unified Iraq.
		From the U.S. point of view, the best election result would be a substantial weakening of the Shiite religious coalition that received 48 percent of the vote in January's election and has dominated the interim government.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/14/AR2005121402202.html (615 words)

	Al Jazeera English - Archive - Validation Through Elections
		It is painfully clear that legitimising a post-war authority in occupied Iraq will be marred by difficulties, since the country's key players subscribe to their own understanding of the legal framework, according to which they believe Iraq should be governed.
		Although al-Sistani's call for holding elections appears unbending, he showed some flexibility when he agreed to a UN role in examining the feasibility of elections by the proposed 30 June deadline.
		Adding to the tensions, particularity in northern Iraq, Arabs and Turkmen strongly reject the Kurds' intent to maintain a considerable autonomy in northern areas where Kurds are the majority.
	english.aljazeera.net /English/archive/archive?ArchiveId=2371 (1041 words)

	Iraq's 'Undemocratic' Elections?
		During that period of increasingly commonplace elections, the argument that such a process is unfair to those described as "Sunnis" has also become somewhat weakened, since at every stage the inhabitants of towns or provinces thus denominated have registered, and voted, in increasing numbers.
		Elections were an "add-on," nothing to do with the original project of Bush administration regime change, which was all about WMD.
		Elections were on the American agenda from the start, but in a somewhat platonic way, and they might well have been postponed for longer if it were not for strong arguments in favor of an earlier transfer of sovereignty and an earlier poll.
	www.aina.org /news/20060105114705.htm (1151 words)

	IRAQ: Organizing the Elections - Council on Foreign Relations
		Outside of Iraq, eligible voters must be 18 or older and an Iraqi citizen or the child of a male Iraqi citizen.
		Iraq has set aside $250 million to pay for the elections, with another $92 million to cover the costs of the expatriate vote.
		Other organizations that have monitored elections, including the U.S. Congress, the European Union, and the Atlanta-based Carter Center, declined to send observers to Iraq because of fears for their safety.
	www.cfr.org /publication/7763/iraq.html (1841 words)

	Elections in Iraq - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Under the Iraqi constitution of 1925, Iraq was a constitutional monarchy, with a bicameral legislature consisting of an elected House of Representatives and an appointed Senate.
		Ten general elections were held before the overthrow of the monarchy in 1958.
		Opponents of the occupation, such as the insurgents and the Sunni faction, claim that the elections were not genuinely free and fair, pointing to several flaws in the process.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_Iraq (452 words)

	USATODAY.com - World leaders praise Iraq election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		BERLIN (AP) — The presidents of France and Russia, top opponents of U.S. policy in Iraq, joined world leaders Monday in praising this weekend's landmark Iraqi elections as a success of democracy over terrorism, but the welcome was tempered by concern that Sunni Arabs be included in a future government.
		He expressed hope the vote would contribute to security in Iraq and hasten the departure of U.S. troops, adding that Shiite-ruled Iran was "ready to cooperate" with the future Iraqi government — which is likely to be dominated by Shiite Muslims.
		Turnout among Iraq's estimated 14 million eligible voters will take some time to determine, Iraqi election officials have said, but Iraqi and U.S. officials said they believe it was higher than the 57% predicted.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/iraq/2005-01-31-iraq-world-reax_x.htm (1057 words)

	Elections in Iraq a Possibility Next Year, Bremer Says
		The legitimacy of Iraq's government is central to rebuilding the country.
		The pipeline would increase Iraq's oil exports to at least 850,000 barrels a day, the sources said on the condition of anonymity.
		Iraq is producing about 1.3 million barrels of crude oil a day, compared with about 2.5 million barrels a day before the war.
	www.iraqfoundation.org /news/2003/gjuly/31_elections.html (681 words)

	CNN.com - Sporadic violence doesn't deter Iraqi voters - Jan 31, 2005
		Clay said the elections "were very transparent" and that representatives of nongovernmental organizations, political organizations and parties observed the process.
		Prime Minister Tony Blair urged Britain to "embrace the bright future of Iraq's new democracy" after the elections, while expressing condolences to the families of British troops killed in a plane crash north of Baghdad.
		U.N. election organizer Carlos Valezuela told CNN that though he was "happy with the turnout," it was too early to report numbers.
	www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/meast/01/30/iraq.main/index.html (1576 words)

	Elections in Iraq - Turkish Daily News Dec 19, 2005
		Elections in Iraq have a more far-reaching meaning for the Middle East, and the world for that matter, than being merely a national phenomenon.
		The outcome of the elections will show whether competing Iraqi factions along ethnic and religious lines have learned the need to cooperate in order to share power, the revenue of their country’s rich natural sources and to maintain a reasonable level of security and stability.
		This is the chance of the Americans and the their more realistic Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad to engage the Sunni groups who decided to participate in the elections to take part in the central and local governments and be represented in every vestige of decision-making and power-sharing.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /article.php?enewsid=30941 (943 words)

	Iraq Elections Fact Sheet - U.S. Embassy Baghdad, Iraq
		Each of Iraq’s 18 provinces will be considered a separate voting district; the number of parliamentary seats allotted to each district is based on the population of the province.
		The election is an opportunity for all Iraqis to determine who governs them, and how the newly ratified constitution is to be implemented, interpreted and, possibly, amended.
		USAID’s elections assistance programs are valued at approximately $110 million to support to the five Iraqi elections, including the January 2005 elections, the October 2005 Constitutional Referendum, and the December 2005 elections.
	iraq.usembassy.gov /iraq/20051215_elections_factsheet.html (1387 words)

	Iraqcoalition.org: Homepage of The New Iraq
		Questions concerning the situation in Iraq and the June 30 turnover of sovereignty dominated a June 18 roundtable interview of Secretary of State Colin Powell, but the secretary also responded to queries on Uzbekistan and the Middle East peace process.
		Representatives of Iraq's banks are meeting with U.S. and international financial experts in New York and Washington to be briefed on the latest banking practices and to come in contact with potential U.S. business partners.
		The establishment of a stable, democratic government in Iraq is a key step in the global war on terror, according to Secretary of State Colin Powell.
	www.cpa-iraq.org (984 words)

	Elections in Iraq - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Iraq's Arab Shi'ites are wary of U.S. intentions and skeptical of an electoral process controlled by the CPA and heavily influenced by the Governing Council.
		Indirect elections would be seized upon by rejectionists like Moktada al-Sadr, who is aggressively vying for power with the ayatollahs of Najaf.
		The Bush administration must weigh the risk of elections inevitably bringing to power a Shi'ite government with the costs of occupation, which is exacerbating resistance and radicalizing Iraqis as a whole.
	www.washtimes.com /op-ed/20031222-095345-8134r.htm (956 words)

	Iraq’s Parliamentary Elections: An Explainer - Council on Foreign Relations
		According to the Independent Electoral Commission for Iraq (IECI), more than 70,000 independent election observers have been accredited to monitor 6,200 polling stations across all of Iraq's eighteen provinces—a 50 percent increase from the October referendum.
		Part of the reason is that Sunni Arabs, who comprise at least 20 percent of Iraq’s population, do not intend to boycott these elections, as they did in January’s interim parliamentary elections, when only 58 percent of the electorate voted.
		Further, because these elections will decide parliament’s makeup for the next four years, there is more at stake, experts say, suggesting that Iraqis will be more inclined to go to the polls.
	www.cfr.org /publication/9356/iraqs_parliamentary_elections.html (1554 words)

	USAID: Assistance for Iraq - Elections Assistance
		This national election is an opportunity for all Iraqis to choose their first permanent government and to establish a precedent for democratic society in Iraq.
		Nearly 70 percent of eligible Iraqi voters turned out to vote in the December 2006 election, a notable increase from the January 2006 election (58 percent) and the October constitutional referendum (63 percent).
		The December 2005 national elections built on the successful January 2005 national election, numerous provincial elections, and the constitutional referendum.
	www.usaid.gov /iraq/accomplishments/elections.html (948 words)

	AlterNet: War on Iraq: Postpone Iraq's Elections
		Elections are needed, but the timing is wrong, with the insurgency growing with every passing moment and Iraqis bracing themselves for the worst.
		Election officials are being killed, threatened and kidnapped daily and the entire Electoral Commission in Anbar province west and north of the capital has resigned.
		Iraq's interim minister of defense, Hazim Shaalan, has added his voice to the chorus calling for a delay.
	www.alternet.org /waroniraq/21002 (850 words)

	India welcomes elections in Iraq
		Welcoming the elections in Iraq as an important development in its transition to full sovereignty, India on Friday hoped that peace and political stability would soon be established in that country and expressed its readiness to cooperate in reconstruction efforts.
		The ministry said it was noteworthy that all sections of the Iraqi population participated in this election and it would lead to a more inclusive and broad-based council of representatives.
		It wishes the people of Iraq success in their efforts towards nation-building and is ready to cooperate in the reconstruction of Iraq," it said.
	www.rediff.com /news/2005/dec/17iraq.htm (172 words)

	CNN.com - U.N. envoy: Iraq elections a 'success' - Dec 16, 2005
		Expected to fare particularly well in the election are the ruling coalitions during the transitional period -- the Shiite-led United Iraqi Alliance and the Kurdish bloc.
		On election eve in Ramadi, a bomb killed a U.S. Marine assigned to the 2nd Marine Logistics Group, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward).
		The death brought the number of U.S. troops killed in the Iraq war to 2,152.
	www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/meast/12/16/iraq.elections/index.html (737 words)

	Iraq Holds Elections Army - Find Articles
		The turnout was much higher than expected as millions of Iraqis stood in lines to vote, sometimes braving insurgent fire to reach the polls and cast their ballots.
		To help secure Iraq's borders, an estimated $25 million is being spent on the construction of 100 new forts along the country's northern borders.
		In the weeks and months leading up to the election and since, coalition forces have continued to encounter improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and firefights in their efforts to keep the country under control.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3723/is_200503/ai_n11852067 (781 words)

	More Speed, Less Haste: Don't Rush Elections In Iraq
		That is the word from the leaders of Iraq’s Shiite Muslim population, who have taken to the streets in massive demonstrations to press their demands.
		Yet, if Iraq is not to descend into civil war, it is imperative that the transfer of power to an elected government is an orderly and equitable process that takes into account the interests of all three of Iraq’s major population group, the Shiites, the Sunni Muslims and the Kurds.
		The U.S. governor of Iraq, L. Paul Bremer, is of the mind that the United Nations has a role to play here, in communicating with the ayatollah, and down the road organizing and supervising elections.
	www.heritage.org /Press/Commentary/ed012204a.cfm (763 words)

	Articles about the elections in Iraq
		Despite the fact that election in principal, is one of the important ways to build a modern state, but it can not be held out of its legal and general conditions.
		Any free and honest election, even under occupation, should be done in safe security conditions at least, under the UN supervision, or any independent body that is not connected to the occupiers and their collaborators.
		The election was the culmination of a constitutional development that began in January, 1966, to which President Johnson gave his personal commitment when he met Premier Ky and General Thieu, the chief of state, in Honolulu in February.
	www.brusselstribunal.org /ArticlesElections.htm (13382 words)

	Iraqi national elections - SourceWatch
		As of September 2004, the leader of the UN team organizing the elections was Carlos Valenzuela [4].
		The first elections in Iraq since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein were held on Sunday January 30, 2005 [5].
		The election was the culmination of a constitutional development that began in January, 1966, to which President Johnson gave his personal commitment when he met Premier Kyand General Thieu, the chief of state, in Honolulu in February.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Iraqi_national_elections (1736 words)

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		The elections were design to consolidate the Occupation, “legitimise” those who serve US interests in Iraq, and hence prolong the suffering of the Iraqi people.
		His group and other groups in the IIG are rigging the elections by enticing Iraqis living abroad to vote for the current IIG members, assassinating members of the Iraqi Muslim Cleric’s Associations, kidnapping and detaining Iraqi politicians, and providing citizenships and election ballots to illegal Iranians to vote in Iraqi elections.
		Any elections under occupation must be in the form of referendum on weather or not to end the US Occupation.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article7637.htm (2033 words)

	Text News
		The situation that has evolved in northern Iraq of course is a historical result of the outcome of the first Gulf war and then the cooperative policy that the United States, the United Kingdom, and Turkey had in trying for 10 years to contain the regime of Saddam Hussein.
		As such, their key demand is to maintain the high levels of autonomy enjoyed during the 1990s and to augment them by existing in a federal Iraqi state, with the contested city of Kirkuk as the capital of the proposed Kurdistan region.
		Objections concerned the levels of autonomy demanded by the Kurds; whether Iraq should be federal or unitary in structure; the concession of the Kurdish veto; and the role of Islam in the state.
	home.cogeco.ca /~kurdistan6/11-2-05-kurdish-aim-post-elections.htm (2622 words)

	FT.com / In depth /Iraq in crisis
		Tony Blair announced a personal mission to the Middle East as he tried to use the damning Iraq Study Group report to drive President George W. Bush into a new peace initiative for the region.
		Iraq is in a civil war, and Iraq is a failed state
		While the stability of Iraq under the former regime had been buttressed by oil revenues, today the struggle for control over these resources is threatening to tear the country apart.
	www.ft.com /iraq (318 words)

	Annan Says Direct Elections in Iraq Not Possible Before June 30
		"The major consensus or understanding (is) that elections cannot be held before the end of June, that the June 30 date for handover for sovereignty must be respected and that we need to find a mechanism to create a caretaker government and then help prepare the elections later," the secretary general told journalists.
		After meeting with his special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, who led a mission to Iraq to discuss the election issue, Annan shared Brahimi's preliminary findings with the so-called "group of friends of Iraq" -- 46 nations that include members of the U.N. Security Council and Middle East countries.
		The CPA also has said that under the current circumstances, direct elections are not feasible before the June 30 transfer of sovereignty.
	www.cpa-iraq.org /pressreleases/20040219_no_elections.html (558 words)

	The Iraq War, Stolen Elections, Treason, & the Truth Behind 9/11: Bringing Down the House of Cards
		The American people -- and particularly our soldiers in Iraq -- are being held hostage by a ruthless criminal cadre (this is not hyperbolic invective; the definition of "criminal" is "one who commits crimes").
		Cutting the Legs Out From Under Their Story Just over two years ago, after what many of us realized was a stolen election (with Barbara Boxer the lone Senator to stand and raise the issue), I wrote a piece about the wall of lies.
		The second was the Iraq War and the reluctance of people to "change horse's asses in the middle of an extreme." The third was 9/11, and the official account of what happened that day.
	www.organicconsumers.org /articles/article_4888.cfm (3366 words)

	Why direct elections in Iraq could backfire \| csmonitor.com
		After holding the UN at arm's length through the Iraq war and the initial postwar phase, the US is now embracing the UN and giving it broad authority in Iraq as a means of salvaging the planned June 30 turnover of sovereignty to the Iraqis.
		She points to the first elections in several countries of Eastern Europe after the breakup of the Soviet Union, elections that favored former communist parties.
		Iraq specialists note that all Iraqis have a ration card from the days of the UN Oil for Food Program that could be used in the absence of a census.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/0210/p02s02-woiq.html (947 words)

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