Well, as suggested by early polling from the Iraqi vote, minority Sunni and secular parties were smacked down by Shiite religious voting blocks.

According the WP, these minority groups are calling the election a sham and a fraud.

And Saleh Mutlak, who headed an independent Sunni slate, said: "I don't think there is any practical point for us for being in this National Assembly if things stay like this.

"This election is completely false. It insults democracy everywhere. Everything was based on fraud, cheating, frightening people and using religion to frighten the people," he said. "It is terrorism more than democracy."

Maybe I'm wrong though, this sounds like one of our elections.

Anyway, the little boost Bush got from this little election is surely to come around and bite him in the ass. We've created another Iran, and the secular politicians in Iraq know it.