July 16th, 2008 by Sarah

Marc Lynch at Abu Aardvark reports that the vote on Iraq’s provincial elections law has been postponed, after Kurdish members walked out in protest.  The blogger isn’t worried though. “The consequences of these elections will be enormous, and it would be foolhardy to rush into them with half-baked, politically controversial rules simply to meet an artificial deadline.”

However Eric Martin at American Footprints isn’t optimistic and believes Lynch misreads the context surrounding the law. “Various groups of Iraqis are battling to determine the political future of their country, to dictate their roles in it, to determine the level of foreign occupation/involvement, and to redress crimes and injustices both recent and historical. How does more time to discuss the various positions/demands undo that?”

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