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02/02/2005 Entry: "Sunni Clerics Call Iraqi Elections Illegitimate"

MORONS: The elections in Iraq -- and I say this without a trace of hyperbole -- may eventually be viewed by history as no less groundshaking then the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Hundreds of millions of Muslims and/or Arabs in the Middle East have seen the collapse of a dictatorship and free elections being held...something that nearly all of them have never experienced themselves.

Despite the fact that most Iraqis are happy with the experience, the Sunni clerics of Iraq aren't. See, they urged a boycott by Sunni Muslims and unfortunately a large number listened to them and didn't vote. Now the Sunni clerics -- through the Association of Muslim Scholars -- are whining that the election was illegitimate because...wait for it!...a lot of Sunnis didn't vote.

In its statement, the association said the election "lacks legitimacy because a large portion of these people who represent many spectra have boycotted it." As a result, the group said the new leadership lacked a mandate to draft a new constitution and should be considered a temporary administration.

"We make it clear to the United Nations and the international community that they should not get involved in granting this election legitimacy because such a move will open the gates of evil," the statement said.

Nice threat. I suspect, however, those gates will be flooded by the bodies of terrorists who decide to fight the election. Sad when a group is on the wrong side of history and doesn't realize the price they will pay.

Read on.