Demagogue

A prediction about what the Iraqi election will lead to should the Sunni boycott materialize. Since many Sunni areas are simply incapable of administering voting, and even Sunnis who don't agree with the boycott may be too frightened to disobey it, this is a rather bleak assessment.

The speaker? Iraq's interior minister, Falah Hassan al-Naqib.

There's much more on the serious risks this election brings; I urge you to click through and read the whole article. One interesting point was the writer's view that the U.S. was "slowly" coming to realize how bad the aftermath might be and both downplaying the importance of the election (at least in comments to the foreign press, if not for domestic consumption) and "frantically" trying to jury-rig a post-election administration that would include enough of the disenfranchised groups to be credible.

Eliminating tyranny and spreading freedom, one corpse at a time.