This election could plunge Iraq further into the abyss
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1389233,00.html
Rigged polls held under foreign occupation have a notorious pedigree
Seumas Milne
Thursday January 13, 2005
The Guardian
They are routinely described by the BBC as Iraq's first free and
democratic elections - sometimes for half a century, sometimes in the
country's history. During his lightning stopover in Baghdad last month,
Tony Blair insisted that whatever you had thought of the war, no one
could now avoid taking sides in what had become a simple "battle
between democracy and terror" in Iraq. And even if enthusiasm for the
elections scheduled for January 30 is usually tempered by an admission
that they are bound in practice to prove "imperfect", there is a
widespread view in the occupying countries that they offer the best
chance to begin to lift the country out of its current misery.
Seumas Milne
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