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...across Iraq, the numbers seemed fantastic: More than 90 percent of voters in many Shi'ite and Kurdish provinces were reported to have voted for the proposed constitution in Saturday's referendum. In Anbar, a robustly Sunni region, the numbers were equally high against it. And in the swing provinces of Diyala and Nineveh, the numbers simply looked implausible...
...seen Saddam Hussein, "re-elected" on Oct. 15, 2002 with 100 percent of the vote, there may have been something oddly familiar in the news from the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq, shortly after the polls closed on Saturday, that 99 percent of voters in some provinces in the Shi'ite south had approved the charter...
...With a turnout at least equal if not greater than that in the January elections, the new Iraqi constitution is poised to pass with strong Shi'ite and Kurdish support. But that is unlikely to quell the disgruntlement of Iraq's Sunnis, who make up the bulk of the insurgency. Despite the massive effort of the Sunni Arabs to defeat the constitution by marshalling a two-thirds "no" vote in three of Iraq's 18 provinces, it appears only two - Anbar and Salahudin - were able to meet that requirement. But early reports from Nineveh and Diyala left Sunnis crying fraud...
...said, "Sometimes, in order to gain your rights, you have to do certain things." That sounds as if he would condone any type of behavior if it achieved political goals. But then, in answer to a question about Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi's call for violence against Shi'ites in Iraq, Ahmadinejad said, "Any decision that leads to the killing of innocents is something that we reject." Comparing Ahmadinejad's answer about rejecting the use of violence to his response rationalizing the necessity of doing "certain things" makes me wonder what Iran's new President truly believes...
...While Shi'ites and Kurds are united in support of the constitution, Sunnis are split, after a last minute deal on Wednesday to open up the document to amendments four months after the election of a new government in December. This was enough to win over the Iraqi Islamic Party, one of the largest Sunni political parties, but it left groups such as the Muslim Clerics' Association and the National Dialogue council fuming at the Islamic Party's reversal. "This is bad for the Iraqis," said Saleh Mutlaq, an influential member of the National Dialogue Council, which includes many former...