Robert Mayer at Publius Pundit has a very valuable post about the protests against the elections in Iraq. Something obviously needs to be done in a hurry to address the charges of fraud and malfeasance.
The January 30 elections saw promises of revolt but nothing materialized. This time, however, there is much more support behind the cause. The ruling religious Shia UIA is defiant toward the demands, saying that they are simply sore losers and should respect the demands of the majority.It's one thing to have an election with such great turnout; it's another to have it marred by horseshit and shenanigans.
Well, that would be fine and dandy if there weren’t something seriously fishy about the results, as no polling or analysis before the election showed the UIA doing as well as it did, or the Sunni and secular parties doing as poorly as they did. In fact, the UIA was supposed to drop by nearly half, while Allawi was supposed to do as well as double. What gives?
Read the whole post. There's tens of thousands of people marching in the streets of Baghdad, people.
Let's get it right.