In case some of you have been living under a rock, the Sunni community has had the idea of election boycott ever since Bush denied postponing the election for six more months. It's estimated that ~20% of the minority Sunni population will vote for a government to put forth a constitution for Iraq.

The Sunnis believe that delaying the election for a few more months will insure broader participation from everyone, but mainly those in the Sunni Muslim population. As a result, Bush is faced with a double edge sword situation of time -vs- , money, resources, patience and stabilization. But the Sunni population thinks it's an obvious sign of favoritism for the Shiite community on Bush's part.

Unfortunately, I believe that will lead to an preemptive/alleged election scandal from the Sunni population and possible civil war with the Shiite population.

I just hope the Sunnis will swallow their pride and vote.

 

I think the sunnis will create thier own election fraud by using this as thier excuse. And that's all it is, an excuse. I say have the election, if you don't vote, you don't deserve to.

 

Without making much of a comment, I disagree. All that I will say is that when I was in Afghanistan and Kosovo, everyone was a bit edgy due to the potential for worst case scenario. I left Afghanistan a few months prior to the actual election, but my buddies over there who are on the operations staff are still keeping me updated via email.

There were more than a few attempts to 'scare' people away from the voter registration and polling stations, but mostly our (coalition) presence there kept order pretty well.

I believe that the Iraqi elections should go on pretty much as planned. There will be some 'incidents' here and there, but not anything unmanagable.

 

Right.

I certainly hope so.

 

interesting point..

The international monitors for the forthcoming elections will all be out of country due to security reasons...

haha yah going to be one helluva election there...

 

I think we can all agree on that.

 

It's just another case of a middle east rivalry. It's happend a million times before and they just want to be +1

 

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp..._re_mi_ea/iraq


It's probably going to be pretty intense.