See: Sistani demands UN guarantee on polls
NAJAF: Iraq’s leading Shi’ite cleric demanded yesterday a UN guarantee that elections would be held this year, as the world body ruled out returning to Iraq soon because of security concerns.
In a statement released in Najaf, Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the revered Shi’ite spiritual leader, accepted that polls could not be held by July, but said he wanted a UN Security Council resolution to set a firm date.
This really pisses me off. 1) If it wasn’t for the US if this guy had even thought something like this in Iraq Saddam’s thought police would have taken him in the night and tortured him to death. 2) Demanding a resolution from the UN for elections… because the UN was the force behind the ousting of Saddam in the first place… NOT! 3) Sit down and shut up.
Regardless of if the War in Iraq was/is the right thing to do. I am so sick and tired of this anti US bullshit. We aren’t the evil empire so get over it already.