The Bush Administration and the Madi Army and the Sunni Army

The Bush administration was focused on tamping down violence throughout 2004 their initial ideas about elections were just to say no we'll get to those eventually. The person who was most agitating for elections though was a sort of nominal ally of the US at this moment and that was Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani. He had been told by you know intelligence advisors and the CIA that actually doing elections would probably just provoke a self-award because again the Sunnis were so disenfranchised and so distrusting of the political process there was no way that they would accept any set of elections or this new kind of government. By December 04 Bush was firm that alright we're going to do elections we