Iraq Government Won't Postpone Elections

[Moloch]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Iraqi government brushed aside Sunni Muslim demands to delay the Jan. 30 election, and a spokesman for the majority Shiite community called the date "nonnegotiable." Insurgents stepped up attacks, blasting U.S. patrols in Baghdad and killing a U.S. soldier north of the capital.

Clashes also occurred Saturday north of Baghdad, where U.S. and Iraqi forces fought a three-hour gun battle with insurgents who overran a town hall and two police stations, local officials said.

Talk of delaying the election gained momentum after influential Sunni Muslim politicians urged the government to postpone the voting for six months to give authorities time to secure polling stations and to persuade Sunni clerics to abandon their call for an electoral boycott.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=716&e=2&u=/ap/20041128/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

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1. what do people expect the US installed regime to say?

Talk about waearing no clothes.

Is anybody really fooled by this charade?

bush says, the Iraq "government" says.

Where was the Iraqi government when bush was bombarding, maybe gassing????, a desnely populated Falluja?

Where was this government so concerened about the fate of its nation and its people?

I cannot believe the vanity of the bush gang.

[robcon]

2. Might as well go ahead with elections

The Sunnis will never agree with elections that officially end their dominance of Iraq's government. The Sunnis don't have the numbers.

[msgadget]

3. Did we really think for a moment they would?

It's not like they get to do what's best for them without considering the impact on US politics.