Iraqi's will go to the polls Thursday to cast ballots for the first time in over 3 decades for a freely elected parliment. In signs that Iraq is embracing American democracy, the campaign for Anbhr Province heated up with a vicious exchange between candidates. On the Sunday morning talkshow Baghdad This Week, candidate Yousif Jabr of the People's Recently Independent Reformed Executioners Party stated that his opponent, "couldn't eat with his left hand if he wanted to!"Jabr's main competition is the Populist candidate from the oil rich community of Kirkuk, Ibrahim Khalilzad. It is widely known that Khalilzad was a supporter of the American liberation movement, which may cost him in the rural district but it is believed that his pro-western toilet initiative will be popular in the urban centers. Khalilzad defeated Mahmoud McDahlid, who's real estate holdings were called into question during the primary debate.
As the rhetoric heated up between the two candidates, Khalilzad commented that, "there is no way that the people should be represented by a man who has only daughters." Jabr is the father of 3 daughters but has no sons, which may prove to be the decisive factor in this heated contest for the Sunni dominanted stronghold.
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