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Elmo has a question: Who voted for the Kurd?

Iraq is also famous for its Kurdish jokes and riddles as America, Polack is that their heart. After January 30, 2005 elections, the Iraqis have proposed a new riddle: If 60% of Iraqis are Shiites, Sunnis 35% and 15% of Kurds, who voted for the Kurd?

According to the CIA World Factbook, the population of Iraq is 75% -80% of Arabs, Kurds 15% -20% and 5% Assyrian origin or otherwise. However, Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, was elected president of Iraq April 6, 2005, becoming the first leader of a Arab country that is not himself an Arab. His leadership demonstrated to satisfy the Sunnis and Shiites to the extent he was reelected in April 2006.

"Did you ever imagine that one day could be President of the Republic of Iraq?" BBC's Jim Muir asked President Talabani in April 2005.

"No," said President Talabani. Of course not do. The Kurds are an ethnic group, language of Iran, as Persians, Lurs, Baluchis and Bakhtiari. They speak Persian, which is why Talabani, during his speeches, trips on his "learned" to use Arabic language, a kind of how our President of the United States does – except in the case of our President, English is their mother tongue.

"What do you think this means for Iraqi Kurdistan, the Kurds of Iraq, who is president?" Jim Muir he asked.

"First this means that the Kurds are equal citizens, not second class citizens … In the past, the Iraqi government were still looking for them as as second class citizens of the country. "

Presidency or not, the Kurds continue to be treated as second class citizens, because no countries who live there want an independent state. About 55% of Kurds worldwide live in Turkey, 22% in Iran, Iraq 16.5% and 6.5% in Syria (CIA World Factbook). In the 20th century, the four countries have suppressed many Kurdish uprisings. Suddenly, in 2005, Iraq was willing to donate one of his men as President of Iraq?

Prehistory Kurds is not well known. Estimated at around 35 million people who constitute the largest ethnic group largest in the world without a nation-state itself. Preparing for a day to declare independence, the region of Kurdistan in Iraq was operate on a semi-independent. They have their own educational system and its own police and militia, which became an army and not a part of the central command in Baghdad. They refused to allow other units of the Iraqi army to enter Kurdistan. Since 2004, men Kurdish politicians have demanded the departure of some 200,000 Arabs who settled in Kirkuk, the oil-rich.

"The [Jalal Talabani] has spent his life to the cause of the liberation of Iraq, "said President Bush.

In fact, Mr. Talabani has dedicated his life to the cause Kurdish liberation. In his life, first joined the Kurdistan Democratic Party, KDP, which was headed by Mustafa Barzani and the Patriotic Union founded Kurdistan, the PUK Both Kurdish parties have been peshmerga (literally, "those who face death"), who used guerrilla tactics style war against the Iraqi forces.

From Kurdistan of Iran is next, Jalal Talabani, has a long tradition of good relations with Iran. During the Iran-Iraq, Talabani and Barzani had militias that fought alongside the Iranians and Iraqi soldiers. They worked with the enemy "cons its national army. There is a word for that. "Treason". There is no other word, "Halabja, which has emerged from this struggle.

Given his short biography, Talabani is in no way an Iraqi, not by birth or by heart. As Saddam Hussein watched the election of Talabani from his cell on a TV, one who really knows the history of Iraq could imagine what he was thinking. Oh, never the British and Americans – they know they will be set aside in the political bureau of Iraq. Firstly, a king born abroad in the early 1920s, then a prominent member of the Baath Party in the 1970s, now a Kurd who can barely speak Arabic. But thinking the nonsense you Sunni or Shia or Christian, or Turkish risked their lives to vote for one outside their own sect? What about me? I am still president Iraq.

Technically, Saddam Hussein has managed to retain his title of president during the occupation. There are two reasons for this, that, Kofi Annan, presented during an interview he gave to Owen Bennett-Jones by the BBC. "From our point of view and perspective of the Charter of the war was illegal … You can not have credible elections if the security conditions continue as they are today. "

A No election may be legitimate when carried out on the illegal foreign military occupation. It is neither free nor fair. But on the basis of this war illegal and fraudulent election, a 275-seat "Interim National Assembly" has been launched. With a total of some 8.4 million votes cast, a turnout of 58%, the Iraqi Electoral Commission has this report:

Official documents having almost always been properly completed (ie filling in the correct line number) and signed by the necessary staff …. Observers have reported differences to reconcile voting 15-20 percent of cases checked … counting of votes has been reported that the end has started in some places, but the lack of electricity security environment and have been contributing factors. In terms of local account, it was reported on problems common to both reports of intimidation of staff and disruption of counting in the review process that led to delays … There were some members of the Table refused to cooperate with election observers. This limited the overall transparency of the counting process … There were some local problems in handling bags of evidence of misuse (placed on the ballot instead of a separate box should be sent to IECI headquarters) or not used at all. In addition, some ballot boxes were not properly closed.

The participation rate ranged from 89% in the Kurdish region of Dahuk to two percent in the Sunni region of Anbar. Many Sunnis did not participate in surveys because, like other Iraqis opposed to the elections and refused to participate in a political process dominated by the U.S. After all, Paul Bremer, another non-Arab, the rules of this election. The High Commissioner of Elections has authority to disqualify any person that Washington has not met with approval. Before leaving office, Bremer issued a series of articles which can not be overthrown by an election.

For others, fear violence kept at home. At least eight candidates have been killed in the context of elections, and many others have received death threats Daily. Many Iraqis who voted in the elections were rigged by money and food rations. In 7785 candidates, mostly without names on the lists of 83 coalitions of political parties, voters did not really know who will be voted in favor.

The lists were mostly religious. Kurdish lists have focused on winning the Kurds in Kirkuk, and obtaining a government job. Shiites, whose revered Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani issued a fatwa calling on his supporters to vote, want federalism, another, an Iranian-style regime. Instead of having their own lists, the Association of Muslim Scholars, a Sunni group, called for a boycott to protest against the destruction of Fallujah by U.S. forces.

With the massacre that took place in Fallujah and elsewhere in the Sunni Triangle, it is surprising that up to two percent has been submitted. For example, after the 2003 invasion, Fallujah was one of the least affected of Iraq. Despite his pro-American mayor, Tahah Bidaywi Hamed, American soldiers have reports of major damage, and there were only cluster bombs and white phosphorus, a controversial weapon incendiary used in the city. At the end of operations, the city was in ruins. Commissioner has indicated that compensation 36,000 50,000 Fallujah homes in the city were destroyed and 60 schools and 65 mosques and holy places.

Both men and women of this region could she Rating not busy mourning the loss of loved ones, finding new homes or simply scramble for ways to stay alive. The situation has allowed the insurance and Kurds, who came to the polls fine, if the results of 89% high.

Despite all this, an interim minister Kurdish Human Rights, Bakhtiar Amin, said: "Parliament has elected a president, not like before when the transfer of power was done through the shedding of blood, military coups and invasions. "Typical Kurdi, an Iraqi would say.

And U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that participation had "exceeded all expectations." Meanwhile, President Bush said: "By participating in elections Free … the people [] Iraqi women have taken rightful control of the destiny of their country, and have chosen a future of freedom and peace. "The administration Typical Bush, an American would say.

These elections are no longer reflects the will of the Iraqi people that made the elections held between 1925 and 1958 under the occupation UK. Meanwhile, the British fought to end the violence, while the teaching of democracy in Iraq and keep a foot in the door. They arrived at this solution: put on the throne a king Iraqi foreign born, and surrounded by expats military, who had spent most of his adult life elsewhere. Sound familiar?

The U.S. Constitution United States, adopted in 1788, established a government elected and protected the civil rights and liberties. Already in the colonial era, before 1776 most adult white men could vote. Women American had the right to vote since 1920, and are almost equal in number to American men, but their political roles have been minimal. It was not until 1984 did a major party choose a woman, Geraldine Ferraro of New York for a term of Vice-President. It was not until 1965 that the United States reached a complete form of democracy, allowing blacks to vote.

In the United States, blacks and whites is 81.7% to 12.9%. (Est. 2003), almost the same figures the Arabs against the Kurds in Iraq. But while, after hundreds of years of democracy, America did not vote for a black for president, Iraq, a tribal nation, has appointed a foreigner, an old enemy, as their leader? It is like America, based on he speaks English, choose someone with an Arab accent as President of the United States.

About the Author

Weam Namou was born as a minority Christian in Baghdad, Iraq and came to American at age 10. She the author of two novels, The Feminine Art and The Mismatched Braid, is a feature writer for the St. Clair Shores Times, a columnist for the Macomb and Oakland Observer, and the president of IAA (Iraqi Artists Association). Her articles and poetry have been published worldwide. www.IraqiArtists.org

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