Horse-trading begins for Iraq’s coalition of opposing forces

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From Stephen Farrell in Baghdad

REASSURING signals of magnanimity and inclusiveness from Iraq’s victorious Shia alliance masked intense backroom deal-making yesterday, as the coalition began negotiations to divide the spoils of victory.

Poised to win a narrow majority in the 275-seat National Assembly, the Shia List backed by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani faces the difficult task of holding its broad coalition together, and making compromises with the Kurds, Sunnis and secular parties to forge a post-Saddam era.

Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, the coalition’s leader, met allies at his office yesterday to allocate Cabinet posts and sought to assuage Sunni fears of Shia hegemony.

“We believe in the need for participation and will seek harmony among all segments of the Iraqi people,” he said. However, pictures of him crying with his head in his hands after the results highlighted the alliance’s disappointment at failing to secure a larger majority.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-1484869,00.html

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. We need people like the one we tried to install last year... the one

who helped us get false intel on Iraq, the one who escaped form Jordan in the trunk of a car for crashing their bank... we need people in power who can be bought, pure and simple, anyone who tells you any different is a bald faced liar. This is the game, and that is how it is played. You religious types who cannot be corrupted and be made to sell out your people need not apply.

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2. And if they insist on being honest power brokers

Well... we have plan B..

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GB15Ak02.html

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3. But, but but but... I thought Saddam killed all the religious folks...

you know... cast fire and brimstone upon them... and stuff....

from your article:

>>To head off this threat of a Shi'ite clergy-driven religious movement, the US has, according to Asia Times Online investigations, resolved to arm small militias backed by US troops and entrenched in the population to "nip the evil in the bud".<<

This is precisely how the United States creates terrorists. Their heroin like addiction to power and control will be our total undoing.