Reply #1: Lots of people are confused [View All]

and misspeaking regarding the Iraqi elections (big surprise). These elections are to elect an interim government that will be responsible for drawing up a constitution. Once that is done, then the actual government can be elected and a president or prime minister or whatever elected. I read somewhere that even most Iraqis think that the election is for a new leader of the country - they don't even know, themselves, what these elections are about! So if five guys whose names are never revealed are "elected", then they get to draft the constitution and hey, it was all legal and above board! I have no idea how this will all turn out, except that it will get worse and worse and worse. I see no end in sight...