From: "Mark Hessey" 

"John Cuccia"  wrote: As of yesterday 
we have decided that Iraqis cannot hold the free
> elections desired by the Shia majority and apparently won't allow them
> until we have some assurance that the outcome will be agreeable to us.
> While that is a natural instinct, it isn't freedom.

That's a gross mischaracterization of the situation. The position is,
rather, that it's going to be done right - not be done in such a way that a
religious majority forces their agenda down the throats of the other
minorities, but allows all to maintain their religious beliefs as an
adjunct to, instead of as part of, the national government. Listening,
evaluating and considering the input of that one powerful cleric is prudent
-allowing him to call the shots because of who he is is not.

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