Shiite Ticket Now Has BIG LEAD in Iraq Vote. HAPPY, NEOCONS? [View All]

[Bluebear]

Show off those purple-fingers, neocons! Happy now? Or will they discover a bunch of "lost" votes under a goat and Allawi will surge back? So we lost 1500 American soldiers, spent 200 BILLION, trained 150,000 Iraqi troops that will be loyal to IRAN.... It's an Ayatollah Sistani tsunami and Iraq will now be a Muslim theocracy as the secular party is running 18% in the polls.... still happy with your election, Bushies?

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S.-backed Prime Minister Ayad Allawi was trailing a Shiite ticket with ties to Iran in Iraq's historic election, according to latest returns released Friday. One U.S. soldier was killed and seven wounded in the north, and gunmen seized an Italian journalist in Baghdad.

The United Iraqi Alliance, endorsed by Iraq's top Shiite clerics, captured more than two-thirds of the 3.3 million votes counted so far, the election commission said. The ticket headed by Allawi, a secular Shiite, had about 18 percent — or more than 579,700 votes...

The terror group al-Qaida in Iraq vowed new attacks against military targets in the coming days in an Internet statement posted Friday. The group promised "victories, qualitative operations and the killing of the heads of the infidels and apostates."



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