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Nothing is certain, not even the January 30 election date, yet there is a growing expectation in Washington that a coalition dominated by religious parties of the Shia majority is likely to emerge as the first Shia Muslim government in the Arab world.

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/39769c38-4489-11d9-9f6a-00000e2511c8.html

"The Bush administration sees Afghanistan as a success story and wants to replicate it, but Allawi is no Hamid Karzai," says Mr Rubin (Michael Rubin, a former US adviser in Iraq and now an AEI analyst), referring to the elected Afghan president.
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sab i dont think there was ever actually a plan
i think that we're making it up as we go along
and the people who win
are the people who think fastest on their feet
or have the pointiest weapons

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and im pretty sure everyone else is too
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