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During the months before the Iraqi elections that took place on April 30, there was growing talk within political and media circles that Iraq was heading toward “decisive elections.” Some politicians and intellectuals raised the level of their expectations and have gone as far as to say these elections are “a matter of life or death.”
However, the reality was and still is different. In fact, the elections were nothing more than a link in a long chain of challenges, practices and changes that Iraqis have to go through on their way toward democracy.
