Allawi Front Runner to Lead Iraq

(Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi may return to power with American blessing after next month's election, even if he does not score a major victory at the ballot box. Iraqi officials say it is too early to predict who will be the country's next prime minister, but privately suggest that Allawi, a secular Shi'ite heading a list that includes several ministers from the U.S.-backed government, is considered the front runner if he wins a seat in the new National Assembly.

http://news.yahoo.com/fc?tmpl=fc&cid=34&in=world&cat=iraq
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Nice democracy. Why not just forget the elections and have the US appoint puppets throughout the government. Same thing.

and not that of "prez"?

I thought they were re-electing a congress of source to draft a legal iraqi constitution and use that to set precedence for full election..

but who knows.. maybe i'm mislead :)

What you are describing sounds more like an Afghan Loya Jirga type government where a former/still? oil company employee (Karzai) gets to play the part of president. Unless this is some new and improved democracy chimp boy is talking about?

Don

in Iraq. There is no way these elections are going to bring peace to the country...

Why would cutting our losses be bad? Just get the hell out of there...

I thought Prime Minister For Life Alwai looked familiar...

to announce his candidacy. only the news reporters deemed it too dangerous to cover him there.

but really - does he need to campaign outside the green zone? they'll just declare he won, regardless... kinda like here.

We need a contest here to GUESS THE DATE

HE GETS OFFED.

Because I'll put a buck down on any hour of any day before these so-called "elections" take place.

the people of Iraq will tolerate his puppet stealing
the Iraqi election. Those Iraqi's are much smarter
than many of the people here about stealing elections.

he is a dead man walking....



I am sure the Iraqis really dig seeing this... :eyes:

There are other candidates?

Really?

But, but, but, I thought Chalabi was the Great Iraqi Hero?

Wha' hoppen?

it's Al-Sadr, in a landslide!

throughout the government."

Sorta like here.

Hussein al-Sharistani. Remember that name...

~Jeff
http://www.jeffvail.net/

Courtesy of the Iraq affiliate of Diebold.

Who wants to take the bet?

I hope the Iraqi people know better than to vote for a puppet who makes threats the people. But the fix is probably in place already.

Who ever could have predicted that he would win that "election"--what a stunner!

Then again, when did bushCartel ever give a shit about what the IRAQIS want.