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Chuck Schumer: U.S. 'Imposing' Elections on Iraq
Sen. Charles Schumer is predicting failure for Iraq's democratically-elected government, complaining that the vote next week to determine the country's new parliament is being "imposed" on the Iraqi people by the U.S. "There will be no government in Iraq the way they're trying to structure it now," the New York Democrat told WABC-TV's "Behind the News" on Sunday. "They're going to have these elections but that's sort of being imposed on them." Schumer questioned the legitimacy of the Iraqi vote despite sky-high turnouts for the country's January and October elections, which saw a higher percentage of voter participation than in U.S. elections. Still, despite the stunning success of the two prior votes, Schumer painted a gloomy picture.
Story Continues Below "Let's face the music," he declared. "There's three groups in Iraq and they all hate one another - the Kurds, the Shiites and the Sunnis . . . As long as these three groups are asked to come together in an army, they're not going to fight as a cohesive force - and it won't be a cohesive government." Sen. Schumer's comments went almost completely unnoticed except for radio host Steve Malzberg, who railed against the pessimistic pronouncements while hosting the morning show on Washington, D.C.'s WMAL. "What is this?" he told his audience. "The election that's coming up, that we're all so proud of, is being forced upon the people? Zarqawi couldn't buy that kind of negative propaganda if he tried." Get Steve Malzberg's exclusive NewsMax.com column emailed directly to you at www.newsmax.com/malzberg.
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