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Irak's Shi’ia
ON THE POLITICAL FRONT , is anyone anywhere surprised that with Prime Minister al-Maliki’s party apparently will win a plurality of the votes cast and that his rivals… the Sunni dominated voters… are already crying “foul.” This is Iraq, Everything there is fouled. It always has been and it always shall be. Al-Maliki’s Party, the Iraqi National Alliance, has issued its own rebuttal, effectively calling those decrying the election results as poor losers and religiously
motivated. Again, this is Iraq; everything there is religiously motivated as the Sunni and the Shi’ia despise one another, almost as vehemently as the various tribes in Nigeria hate each other.
Mr. Al-Maliki’s party and his bloc within that party are of course Shi’ia, and their power base lies in the south, nearest to Iran, which as everyone knows is Shi’ia. Simply put, the Saudis, the Kuwaitis, the people of the Emirates along the coasts of the Gulf look toward a large and rising Shi’ia “authority” on the northern shore of the Gulf with a very real sense of trepidation. In the north, in Kurdistan, the Kurdish political parties ran far ahead of everyone else. No one is surprised of course.
- Dennis Gartman/ The Gartman Letter 03 / 12 / 2010
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