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Beyond Iraq's elections.

The Progressive | February 1, 2006 | Copyright

Khalid Kareem, a truck driver from Hit, a city western Al-Anbar province, voted in Iraq's parliamentary elections in December, but he did not do so because he applauds the Americans.

"We want people who will set a timetable for the Americans to leave," says Kareem, who voted in Jordan for Saleh Mutlaq, a secular Sunni candidate. "We want the U.N. and the Arab League to go into the western part of the country to see what is happening."

Despite President Bush's trumpeting of the elections as a symbol of support for the U.S. efforts, many Iraqi voters, like Kareem,…

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