Just a general commentary - the left seems to have already legitimized the Palestinan elections to be held in January although there is no contiguous territory, millions of refugees outside of "Palestine" who will not vote and no constitution. Forget that the territories are teeming with terrorist organizations who practice street justice and there is no international oversight.

Yet in Iraq, holding elections in January is supposed to be some kind of pipe dream even though they have a constitution, an internationally recognized government and tens of thousands of international forces to keep some semblance of order. Just because people get killed every day in Iraq does not mean elections cannot be held. I'm curious how many people were murdered in America on election day, even if it wasn't for political reasons.