#1 ELECTIONS at the district and provincial levels currently followed the "closed party list" system in which candidates running for office had to be chosen from lists provided by political parties. The system was designed during the early days of Operation Iraqi Freedom by UN advisers who ruled out voting by geographical location for a variety of technical and political reasons.
So that's the source of our biggest structural failure in Iraq. I wonder what Donald Trump would charge to level that eyesore on Turtle Bay? |