While turnout appeared higher than expected, journalist Robert Fisk reports that the turnout should be seen as both a victory and a tragedy. Fisk writes “For while the Shias voted in the millions with immense courage, the Sunni voice of Iraq remained silent, casting into semi-illegitimacy the national assembly.” Fisk went on to report that no one he spoke to expects the resistance to end and that many fear it will grow more ferocious if the Sunnis are underrepresented in the new Shiite and Kurdish-led government. Earlier today interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi vowed to begin a “national dialogue to guarantee that the voices of all Iraqis are present in the coming government.”