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Election Year 2004: Why is the U.S. Refusing Iraqi Demands For Immediate Direct Elections?

Election Year 2004: Why is the U.S. Refusing Iraqi Demands For Immediate Direct Elections?

The U.S. has rejected calls by Iraq’s most senior Shi’ite Muslim cleric for immediate direct elections in Iraq instead planning indirect elections to form a transitional assembly that would then form an interim Iraqi government. We speak with Iraq blogger and University of Michigan professor Juan Cole. [includes transcript]

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