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"...announcement [that Sunnis have quit election, etc.] raises the likelihood that the results of the vote will be called into question. U.S. and United Nations diplomats have expressed fears that a Sunni boycott that hands victory to Shiites would throw the results of the election into doubt. In turn, that could open the door to a new round of violence" [this quote is from msnbc]

Naa...

Violence is how Iraq works

"Violence"? Come on! They stoppped counting at 500,000 dead Iraqi civilians. There is practically no one left standing in the entire country! So the Sunnis are boycotting the election. Boo hoo. Let them boycott. That's how Iraq works. They work by violence, not elections. Come on, msnbc. You are awfully easy to reply to, you know that? Ha ha ha. This is all part of an ongoing Iraqi process.

We all know what Iraq's main concern is ---- to limit or end the violence. That is important. Violence and elections go hand-in-hand, and I do not mean just in an election season. But ongoing, year upon year, there is no qualitative difference between elections and violence in Iraq. It is all wound up in the same fabric.