Reply #24: I don't really see what's so important about this election.

[mwb970]

So now a few hundred people get a new title and a new job. That's not democracy, only the first teensy baby step towards it. What are these new people going to do? Will the three feuding groups in Iraq suddenly be able to work together, committed to a united country, just because these particular people have been given new government titles?

It seems as if unelected religious leaders have more influence in Iraqi society than a secular government will have. Kind of like if we all took Pat Robertson seriously, I guess.