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Posts Tagged provincial elections

Win the Iraqi Morning, Win the Iraqi Afternoon

By | 02.20.09 | 9:04 am

The final results of the Iraqi provincial elections are in. Musings on Iraq, the breakaway blog of the prov-elections — Democracy Arsenal’s Ilan Goldenberg once lamented that there’s no Nate Silver for Iraq, but Musings comes close — has a digestible breakdown of Winners, Losers, and More…

Iraq’s ‘Political System Is Now Functioning,’ Mr. President?

By | 02.10.09 | 1:20 pm

President Obama was pretty subdued when talking about Iraq last night at his press conference last night. “We just saw an election in Iraq that went relatively peacefully and you get a sense that the political system is now functioning in a meaningful way,” Obama said about last weekend’s More…