Perhaps the Sunnis should “Get over it”

An international panel will be re-assessing Iraq’s recent elections, taking particular note of complaints made by Sunnis to the effect that as a result of pre-election assassinations, intimidations and that sort of thing, the Iraqi elections weren’t exactly… “fair.” A U.N. monitor had already declared the Iraqi elections “good enough”…
The big winners, thus far, were, surprise surprise, Shiite religious extremist parties, promising Sharia law as fast as it can be imposed; in second place were the Kurds, who want… as little to do with the rest of the Iraqi state as possible (and have their own pashmurga militias to make it so). Coming up the rear were Sunni… religious extremist parties.
Many Sunnis who fear Shia reprisals and payback for the Saddam era, and otherwise have problems with an Iranian style theocratic shit-hole are… pissed. And many of their contentions of electoral irregularity were at least serious enough to warrant further investigation (if not meaningful change, which they will not result in.)
The United States desperately needs something approaching “legitimacy” so that the new government can be formed as fast as possible and ask us to draw down our troops to below the magic 99,000 level (I’m thinking its more like 90,000) before the all-important ’06 mid-term elections…
So look for two or three seats to change hands in favor of Sunnis, and the elections to otherwise be declared “Halal”… followed by… well, you all know where this is going…
Lather, rinse, repeat.