Early election results:
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With 2,212,000 votes out of 3.3 million counted, the Shiite list has 67% and a commanding lead over that of interim prime minister Iyad Allawi, in second place with 579,000 votes, or 17%. In a first count announced on Thursday, the alliance stood at 72.8%.
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To ask whether the Shia are pro-Bush is a very tendentious way of putting the question. Were one to ask whether they were pro-Regime Change, pro-democracy or even in favour of a secular representative and integrated national government for Iraq, they might answer in the affirmative. These being apparent aims of Bushian intervention, might suggest some pro-Bush attitudes. Doubtless they would preffer foreign troops leave, reconstruction proceed and insurgency rest too. I suspect some Shia can appreciate the relationship between reconstruction efforts and Coalitioneers, they realize the insurgency or terrorists do represent a danger their own armed forces may not be able to adequately handle just now. Some of these might even grasp the need for foreign troops to deal with the insurgency or terrorists, not everyone is certain they would spontaneously dissappear the moment the gringoes left.