> The Iraqi people need a national, rather than sectarian, political
> organization that can allow them to express their preference for US
> withdrawal _if_ that's what they prefer,
Totally agreed.
> but sectarian elections as
> established by Washington clearly do not serve for that purpose.
I don't see why. What's stopping the UIA and the Sunni parties from forming an umbrella group, calling a press conference on the steps of the Iraqi parliament and demanding that the US leave? If that happened, it would be all but impossible for the US to stay a day longer.
It's obviously not the elections or the parliament that's preventing this from happening. It's the choices (under existing circumstances) of the Iraqis themselves.
Seth