Surreal Election
Posted: Friday, January 28, 2005

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Iraq's Non-Election
Predictably, the U.S. news media are full of discussion and debate about this weekend's election in Iraq. Unfortunately, virtually all the commentary misses a simple point: There will be no "election" on Jan. 30 in Iraq, if that term is meant to suggest an even remotely democratic process.

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Surreal Election
No one in Baghdad is calling the shots in Iraq's surreal experiment with electoral politics. The marching orders are coming from Washington. And after all the tragedies that Iraq has so far experienced, this continued direction from a distance promises even more tragedy and farce in the days to come.



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