Delay the poll? Absolutely not

摘要

Just about everyone in Iraq says they are ready for a general election on January 30th-bar the insurgents and the Sunni community from which they gain succour. The Kurds' two dominant parties say they now have a single list of candidates. And people close to Iraq's most influential clergyman, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, say they have drawn up a United Iraqi Alliance encompassing the main Shia parties, plus the followers of Muqtada al-Sadr, un- -til recently a rebellious Shia firebrand.