An Iraqi court has disqualified at least 90 candidates in the recent national elections from serving in parliament because of their ties to Saddam Hussein's Baath party.
The ruling, which affects some Sunni Arab political leaders who would probably have won seats, will further inflame Sunnis who are faring poorly in early results, despite a large turnout at the ballot box on December 15...
Sunni leaders have accused the dominant Shiite political parties of widespread ballot-box stuffing and fraud and have called for new elections. Several thousand Sunni Arabs demonstrated in Baghdad on Friday, and on Saturday elections officials began examining ballot boxes from six polling sites in the capital that were subjects of fraud allegations.
They also disclosed that staff members of the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq were among those accused in the complaints of vote tampering...
Clearly we need to further intervene to give the Iraqis the benefits of our Wrepublic.
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