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Iraqi’s Embracing Democracy
There’s good news out of Iraq.
Across town, hundreds of black-clad followers of the radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr — who decried balloting 10 months ago as something imposed under American occupation — beat their backs with chains and stomped across a large poster of former interim prime minister Ayad Allawi. Sadr’s political wing has joined forces with the alliance of Shiite religious parties that leads Iraq’s current government and opposes Allawi’s secular movement.
As Iraqis nationwide prepare to go to the polls for the third time this year on Dec. 15 — this time for a new parliament — candidates and political parties of all stripes are embracing politics, Iraqi style, as never before and showing increasing sophistication about the electoral process, according to campaign specialists, party officials and candidates here.
“It is like night and day from 10 months ago in terms of level of participation and political awareness,”
Incidentally, I just noticed a cool feature that is on the WaPo site that I’ve never seen before. On the right side, there is a “who’s blogging about this article” link. Slick.
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