So, you want Iraq to have democracy, eh? Well, so do they. Butt out!!!..

[Sara Beverley]

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C5ABB0EF-3402-4E1C-95BA-B889CEE99623.htm

US push for 'Sunni seats' rejected

Sunday 26 December 2004, 19:22 Makka Time, 16:22 GMT

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Iraq's Independent Election Commission has emphatically rejected US calls for fixed Sunni Arab seats in the legislature, said a commission official.

The election body has rejected a move by Washington to adjust the results of next month's vote to benefit the Sunni community.

Speaking of "unacceptable" interference, Electoral Commission spokesman Farid Ayar said: "Who wins, wins. That is the way it is. That is the way it will be in the election."

Ayar was emphatic in dismissing such a possibility, and suggested US officials were trying to interfere.



"Maybe they didn't read the rules and regulations of the commission ... The Americans are expressing their views and those aren't always the same as the commission's. But the commission is absolutely independent.

"It is not acceptable for anyone to interfere in our business. That will not be allowed to happen," he said.

US interference

The US has been pushing for a set number of seats for Sunni Arabs in Iraq's legislature irrespective of elections, according to The New York Times.

[purduejake]

1. So when is the commission going to be dissolved by the US.

to be replaced with one that believes in "freedom"?