Comments on: The Democratic Process In Iraq… http://donklephant.com/2005/12/26/the-democratic-process-in-iraq/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:59:03 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: BrianOfAtlanta http://donklephant.com/2005/12/26/the-democratic-process-in-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-4818 BrianOfAtlanta Tue, 27 Dec 2005 20:48:29 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2005/12/26/the-democratic-process-in-iraq/#comment-4818 And it looks like cooler heads are once again prevailing in the Iraqi government. Al-Sadr isn't getting his man Jafari as PM. SCIRI has instead nominated Aadil Abdulmahdi, who is much more palatable to the Sunnis. How do these Iraqis keep defying the odds and resisting the irresistible plunge into chaos? How can they repeatedly show themselves to be so competent, so pro-Iraqi? I'm sure Juan Cole et al are mystified. And it looks like cooler heads are once again prevailing in the Iraqi government. Al-Sadr isn’t getting his man Jafari as PM. SCIRI has instead nominated Aadil Abdulmahdi, who is much more palatable to the Sunnis.

How do these Iraqis keep defying the odds and resisting the irresistible plunge into chaos? How can they repeatedly show themselves to be so competent, so pro-Iraqi? I’m sure Juan Cole et al are mystified.

]]> By: ford4x4 http://donklephant.com/2005/12/26/the-democratic-process-in-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-4807 ford4x4 Tue, 27 Dec 2005 17:18:34 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2005/12/26/the-democratic-process-in-iraq/#comment-4807 <blockquote> You have to wonder why the Iraqi court disqualified 185 Sunni candidates ... An Iraqi court has ruled that some of the most prominent Sunni Muslims who were elected to parliament last week won’t be allowed to serve because officials suspect that they were high-ranking members of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party. </blockquote> Looks like that's your answer. As far as why they disqualified them after the election instead of before.... maybe they are a little disorganized and behind, just like American courts.

You have to wonder why the Iraqi court disqualified 185 Sunni candidates
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An Iraqi court has ruled that some of the most prominent Sunni Muslims who were elected to parliament last week won’t be allowed to serve because officials suspect that they were high-ranking members of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party.

Looks like that’s your answer. As far as why they disqualified them after the election instead of before…. maybe they are a little disorganized and behind, just like American courts.

]]> By: ascap_scab http://donklephant.com/2005/12/26/the-democratic-process-in-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-4791 ascap_scab Mon, 26 Dec 2005 21:08:52 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2005/12/26/the-democratic-process-in-iraq/#comment-4791 You have to wonder why the Iraqi court disqualified 185 Sunni candidates AFTER the election was held, thereby invalidating untold ballots cast by Sunnis!! http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/13476434.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp <i>An Iraqi court has ruled that some of the most prominent Sunni Muslims who were elected to parliament last week won't be allowed to serve because officials suspect that they were high-ranking members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party. Knight Ridder has obtained a copy of the court ruling, which has yet to be circulated to the public. The ruling is likely to dampen Bush administration hopes that the election would bring more of the disaffected Sunni minority into Iraq's political process and undermine Sunni support for the insurgency. Instead, the decision is likely to stoke fears of widening sectarian divisions in a nation already in danger of descending into civil war. Adil al-Lami, the chief electoral official of the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq, told Knight Ridder that he would honor the court's decision and that none of the accused Sunnis would appear on the final list of parliament members. ... On Friday, thousands of Sunnis demonstrated in Baghdad, charging that the election was rigged in favor of the majority Shiite Muslims. <b>The demonstration wasn't a reaction to the court decision because the Iraqi people hadn't learned of it.</b></i> Just wait 'til they do learn they voted for nothing!! You have to wonder why the Iraqi court disqualified 185 Sunni candidates AFTER the election was held, thereby invalidating untold ballots cast by Sunnis!!

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/13476434.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

An Iraqi court has ruled that some of the most prominent Sunni Muslims who were elected to parliament last week won’t be allowed to serve because officials suspect that they were high-ranking members of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party.

Knight Ridder has obtained a copy of the court ruling, which has yet to be circulated to the public.

The ruling is likely to dampen Bush administration hopes that the election would bring more of the disaffected Sunni minority into Iraq’s political process and undermine Sunni support for the insurgency. Instead, the decision is likely to stoke fears of widening sectarian divisions in a nation already in danger of descending into civil war.

Adil al-Lami, the chief electoral official of the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq, told Knight Ridder that he would honor the court’s decision and that none of the accused Sunnis would appear on the final list of parliament members.

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On Friday, thousands of Sunnis demonstrated in Baghdad, charging that the election was rigged in favor of the majority Shiite Muslims. The demonstration wasn’t a reaction to the court decision because the Iraqi people hadn’t learned of it.

Just wait ’til they do learn they voted for nothing!!

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