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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13529-2004Nov25.html
A Fight for Shiites
(Washington Post)Charles Krauthammer- There has been much talk that if the Iraqi election is held and some Sunni Arab provinces (perhaps three of the 18) do not participate, the election will be illegitimate. Nonsense. In 1864, was Lincoln's election illegitimate because 11 of the 36 states did not participate in the presidential election? If Iraq's Sunni Arabs - barely 20% of the population - decide they cannot abide giving up their 80 years of minority rule, ending with 30 years of Saddam Hussein's atrocious tyranny, then tough luck. They forfeit their chance to shape and participate in the new Iraq.