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"Some 30 Killed in Iraq Violence," by Juan Cole, Informed Consent, http://www.juancole.com/2005/02/some-30-killed-in-iraq-violence.html, 9 February 2005.

Taking a step back from his more "interesting" theories, Juan Cole reports

The same newspaper reports that Abdul Salam al-Kubaisi, a prominent leader of the Association of Muslim Scholars, claimed on Tuesday that the Americans would never have agreed to one-person, one-vote elections so soon if it had not been for the pressure put on the US by the Sunni Arabs. He thus takes credit for the fact that Iraqi is holding elections at all. That allegation strikes me as unlikely.

Is he serious? No. Should we believe him? Of course not. But Kubaisi's statement still tells us something.

The Sunnis lose from true democracy in Iraq. They are losing in the elections right now. One-man one-vote elections are not god for their interests. They are only taking credit for the elections because many Sunnis now view the elections are irreversible.

Hopefully, the slow Sunni cave-in is true. Hopefully the civil war is nearing an end. And hopefully the democratic revolution can continue to spread throughout the Middle East.