The Shi'ite politicians who formed the Iraqi National Alliance (INA) to fight parliamentary elections had one objective in mind: keeping secular ex-prime minister Iyad Allawi's hands off the premiership.
That is becoming increasingly clear from their words and actions, which belie any thought that they had even the slightest intention of working together as a community or political bloc, with each politician seeing himself more worthy of the premiership than any other.
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