Just yesterday, the Criminal-in-Chief praised the Iraqi elections as a major success:
Last night I addressed the nation about our strategy for victory in Iraq, and the historic elections that took place in the country last week. In a nation that once lived by the whims of a brutal dictator, the Iraqi people now enjoy constitutionally protected freedoms, and their leaders now derive their powers from the consent of the government. Millions of Iraqis are looking forward to a future with hope and optimism.But, today, we learn that might not be so true...and it looks like trouble is brewing:
Sunni and secular political parties angrily claimed Tuesday that last week's Iraqi national election was rigged, demanding a new vote and threatening to leave in shambles the delicate plan to bring Iraq's wary factions together in a new government.
Faced with preliminary vote counts that suggest a strong victory by the United Iraqi Alliance, a coalition of Shiite religious parties that dominates the outgoing government, political leaders of Iraq's Sunni Arab minority hinted that insurgent violence would be accelerated by the suspicions of fraud.
