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...Iraq has another chance. The surge of American military forces in 2007 bought time for Iraq's leaders to work out their problems. The U.S. is betting that they can. The Status of Forces Agreement worked out between the Bush Administration and the Iraqi government holds that the U.S. must withdraw all combat troops from Iraq by the end of August and the remaining 50,000 support troops by the end of 2011. The Obama Administration has stuck to the timetable. With one eye on a developing political maturity in Iraq, Vice President Joe Biden has predicted that Iraq could...
...parties whose leaders tore the nation apart are still the country's most powerful, but they have joined in loose multiethnic and multisectarian coalitions. "Obviously there are still going to be candidates who just parrot what their leader says, but that's not going to be as effective this time," says an official with a U.S.-funded NGO that works on democracy training. Iraq's political class, she says, is learning that "they have to let the public define the issues, rather than defining the issues for them." (See pictures of Iraq's revival...
...TIME photographer's Iraq diary...
...accept the outcome of the vote and move forward peacefully. That will not be easy. "It's hard teaching people who have come out of a dictatorship to negotiate with each other," says the U.S. NGO worker. "In a dictatorship, all they know is win-lose. It takes time for them to learn that in a democracy you can have win-win compromises...
...build democracy, but what kind of democracy is this?" asks Saleh al-Mutlaq, the leader of the country's second largest Sunni Muslim party and one of the banned candidates. "The Americans brought Ahmad Chalabi to Iraq. They should solve this problem, or they should just leave." (See TIME's Iraq covers...