Naomi Klein brings her usual incisive and comprehensive analysis and skill with words to an issue – free elections in Iraq – that may come to be very troubling for the USian initiative still unfolding in Iraq.
The rest of her article in today’s Guardian is here.
These distinctions are commonly made in Iraq: many people I met in Baghdad condemned the attacks on Sadr as evidence that Washington never intended to bring democracy.
They backed Sadr’s calls for an end to occupation and immediate elections. But when asked if they would vote for him, most laughed.
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