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Bad news from the Iraq front

If you impose a democracy on a country, they'll use it, and a recent poll reported in the Washington Post indicates that the US's favourite candidate, Mr. Ayad Allawi, is not guaranteed to win the election, and would possibly not win one were it to be held today. In other bad news, more Iraqis blame the occupying forces than terrorists for the violence in the country, and more believe the country is going in the wrong direction than in the right direction.

President Bush said Tuesday that he would be "disappointed" if free and fair elections in Iraq led to the seating of an Islamic government, but that the United States would accept the results. "Democracy is democracy," he said. "If that's what people choose, that's what the people choose."