Tuesday, January 04, 2005
To Vote or Not to Vote....
Seems there is a little bit of confusion as to whether or not Iraq is "secure" enough to acutally hold anything that even resembles an election on Jan. 30th. Accordinng to The New York Times ,
Seems there is a little bit of confusion as to whether or not Iraq is "secure" enough to acutally hold anything that even resembles an election on Jan. 30th. Accordinng to The New York Times ,
The steady violence prompted Iraq's interim president, Ghazi al-Yawar, to urge the United Nations to look into whether Iraq should go ahead with the scheduled Jan. 30 elections.Al-Yawar was speaking after the assassination of Ali al-Haidari, the governor of Baghdad. Despite Al-Yawar's dim view of the security situation in Iraq, Scott McClellan was still insisting that "most of the country is in a secure enough environment to proceed with [. . .] elections." So it seems that the folks feeding McClellan his talking points are still living in a alternate universe where things in Iraq are going just swell. Al-Haidari's assassiantion is just the highest profile example of violence in Iraq this week and it's only Tuesday.
"Definitely the United Nations, as an independent umbrella of legitimacy, should really take the responsibility by seeing whether that is possible or not," Mr. al-Yawar, a Sunni Arab sheik, told Reuters in an interview.
"On a logical basis, there are signs that it will be a tough call to hold the election,'"