Is GWB Attempting to "Fix" the Iraqi Election ? [View All]

Apparently the administration has already decided that it does not want ONLY the election returns of 1/31/05 to determine who sits in the power positions of Iraq. Is this the "democracy" we have been so hell bent on promoting?

U.S. Is Suggesting Guaranteed Role for Iraq's Sunnis

The Bush administration is talking to Iraqi leaders about guaranteeing Sunni Arabs a certain number of ministries or high-level jobs in the future Iraqi government if, as is widely predicted, Sunni candidates fail to do well in Iraq's elections.

An even more radical step, one that a Western diplomat said was raised already with an aide to Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most revered Shiite cleric, is the possibility of adding some of the top vote-getters among the Sunni candidates to the 275-member legislature, even if they lose to non-Sunni candidates.

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Complete article from N.Y. Times found here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/26/international/middleeast/26diplo.html