| Many exiled Shiite leaders in the U.S. are becoming increasingly pointed in their criticism of the Bush administration's handling of the war as conditions in Iraq deteriorate. Echoing the complaints of Shiite leaders inside Iraq, the critics accuse the U.S. of failing to provide security or basic services to ordinary Iraqis and of trying to appease Sunni Muslim militants in Iraq by forcing the country's Shiite leadership to make political concessions. |
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)