Word: jumaluddin
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Dates: during 2004-2004
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...political change. Though some Iraqi officials criticized the delay?"It is time for the U.N. to get off its goddam high horse," groused one?others saw the chaos and confusion as a positive sign. "I don't consider the delay a failure, but a success," says Sayyid Ayaad Jumaluddin, who is one of the conference's organizers. To Jumaluddin, the number of voting irregularities was "evidence of a real desire to participate...
...Puffing on a magnificent Cohiba cigar at his home beside the Tigris River, Jumaluddin tries to put the rocky start of local democracy in perspective. "Iraqis don't know what democracy is," he says. He tries to explain the challenge by relating a joke that is making the rounds in Baghdad: "An old woman asks her son, 'What is this democracy I hear so much about? What does it mean?' Her son tells her that every four years there will be a new President. 'Isn't that wonderful, Mother?' The old woman thinks about it for a moment, and then...
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