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Elections in Iraq, 2005
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     challenging words:    suicide, withdrawal, legislature, occupation, legislative, majority, temporary, govern, leading, leader, ballot, democracy, civil, provided, protest, political
     content words:    Abdul Aziz, Supreme Council, Islamic Revolution, Baghdad Convention Center, Iraqi Council, United States

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Elections in Iraq, 2005
By Sharon Fabian 		  
1     Caption: Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, the leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq party, casts his ballot in Iraq's first free election at a polling station in the Baghdad Convention Center in Baghdad, Iraq, on Jan. 30, 2005. Millions of Iraqis throughout the country participated in Iraq's first free election in over 50 years.
 
2     Elections were held in Iraq in 2005. It would be the first time since the beginning of the Iraq war that the Iraqi people would choose their own leaders. Some people looked forward to the elections as the beginning of democracy in Iraq. Others said that the elections would have little effect. Still others said that the elections could make things worse by leading to a civil war.
 
3     It may be many years before the full effects of those elections are known, but just holding the elections was a big event in 2005. There was not just one election, but three.
 
4     The first election, on January 30, 2005, was held to choose a temporary assembly of lawmakers. This assembly would have the job of writing Iraq's new constitution. It would also serve as a temporary legislative branch until a more permanent one was chosen under the rules of the new constitution.

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