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S1 Episode 8 - "Electioneering"

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Iraqi Sunni Muslims Did Not Vote in the Fallujah Elections

CNN's John Defterios says the Bush administration had a real Sunni legitimacy problem. The US was still hoping and talking about the elections in a language as if they were going to usher in some sort of miracle of Iraqi democracy, he says. Of course they did not have this legitimizing effect. He adds that Condi Rice is drawing a distinction between herself and her good one colleague Don Rumsfeld. "The enemy strategy is to infect terrorize and pull down"

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