02/01/2005: "Why is a democratic Iraq not a good thing???"
Leader Urges Unity After Iraq Vote Allawi Vows To Involve Sunni Arabs In 'New Era'
By Anthony Shadid and Cameron W. Barr Washington Post Foreign Service Tuesday, February 1, 2005; Page A01
BAGHDAD, Jan. 31 -- A day after Iraq's first free election in half a century, interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi called on his countrymen to unite and promised to reach out to the country's alienated Sunni Arab minority. The Sunni reaction may determine whether the electoral euphoria can be translated into the stability that has eluded Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003.
