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On the 30th of January, elections are due to take place in Iraq, the first since the invasion of this Middle Eastern country. But these elections are framed within a spiral of violence that appears to have no let-up or end in sight.

Indeed, the acts of violence and the guerrilla attacks continue, seven months after the transfer of power that marked the end of the formal occupation of Iraq. So much so that Iyad Allawi, Prime Minister of the Provisional Iraqi Government, admitted a few days ago that there will be areas in which it will be impossible to exercise the right to vote.

Obviously, all this violence makes the process of social, economic and political reconstruction very difficult indeed, when soon it will be two years since the end of the Iraq war. Because of this, it was not too surprising that in his investiture speech on the 20th January, US President George Bush, the main driver behind the war, did not mention Iraq a single time.

It is also worth noting that this January, the United States brought the search for weapons of mass destruction to an end, without having found any. Remember that the existence of these weapons was the main reason given for invading Iraq and toppling the regime of Saddam Hussein.