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Here is an "opposing" view of the recent Iraq election from inside Iraq. "Opposing" in the sense of denying the legitimacy of the whole election:<BR>
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<A HREF="http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050202155109990003">http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050202155109990003</A><BR>
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Because many Sunnis stayed away from the polls, influential Sunni clerics are challenging the legitimacy of the ballot, as well as the new government and the constitution that the National Assembly is to create.<BR>
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''We cannot participate in the drafting of a constitution written under military occupation,'' said Mohammed Bashar al-Feidhi, a spokesman for the Sunni clerical Association of Muslim Scholars.<BR>
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V2020 Post by Ted Moffett<BR>
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