Being the first election in Iraq after US forces left there was some turmoil to be expected; what wasn't expected was an attempt at mass murder. The election taking place on April 20th was supposed to be seen as a new start for Iraq but things never seem to change. At least 14 of the candidates for election have already been murdered. There is a total of 33 dead and over 140 people wounded from these blasts. Iraq is having trouble containing the situation without the proper forces in place to keep things under control. government always seems to end with radicalism in the Middle East so this is something they should have expected. One has to consider if this would have gone differently had the Unitedf States stayed.
One of the benefits of the United States leaving was the fact that we couldn't put any force towards who we wanted to win. This gave Iraq the illusion that the people would make sensible vote. It appears they were very wrong.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/04/201341562946963175.html
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