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Iraq Provincial Elections: Pointing the Way to the Future or a Return to Oppression?

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1 Feb

Per UN observers, NGOs and legislators from various assemblies around the world, the latest Iraq provincial elections showed a significant level of professionalism and organizational clout. Despite a number of incidents and flaws, within norms of societies emerging away from dictatorship, the Iraqi electoral process has moved forward since its first post Baathist election in 2005. The main achievement in these provincial elections was the demonstration by Iraqi security and defense forces of their capacity to organize such an exercise on a national scale despite the al Qaeda menace and Iranian penetration of the country. This thus opens the discussion of Iraqi military responsibility as the United States are now contemplating the first stages of redeployment and withdrawal. In a future piece I will share some of the discussions I had with European and Iraqi legislators regarding these next stages. Following is a short piece I published on the Fox News Forum.

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