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Shiite Coalition Takes a Big Lead in Early Vote Count in Iraq
By JOHN F. BURNS and DEXTER FILKINS

Published: February 4, 2005


BAGHDAD, Iraq, Feb. 3 - Preliminary election returns released Thursday by Iraqi authorities showed that 72 percent of the 1.6 million votes counted so far from Sunday's election went to an alliance of Shiite parties dominated by religious groups with strong links to Iran. Only 18 percent went to a group led by Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, a secular Shiite who favors strong ties to the United States. Few votes went to Sunni candidates.

Damn. What would happen if you invented an election and nobody voted for you? this may be the first time the rethuglicans have been in charge of an election that they didn't win.

From the New York Times full story here

By the pricking of my thumbs something war like this way comes.

"I don't think anybody thinks that the unelected mullahs who run that regime are a good thing for the Iranian people or for the region. I think our European allies agree that the Iranian regime's human rights behavior and its behavior toward its own population is something to be loathed."

- CONDOLEEZZA RICE, secretary of state.

I saw an interview with Hirshman on TDS and he said by this summer we will be at war with Iran. Rice said that there wan't a plan for an Iran war, but she lies. A Lot. She's a liar. By this summer...

New York Times