 Former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, a secular Shiite just back from barnstorming for support among Sunni Arab leaders across the Middle East, appears determined to make another run at the premiership. His platform: Iraq cannot survive under the current Shiite leadership, and Sunnis must have a much larger role in government. The Sunni-dominated Arab League believes this, as well, but the idea is opposed by the Shiite-led government in Iraq. Most Shiite lawmakers cannot abide Allawi's secular positions and it appears unlikely he could form a sufficiently large parliamentary coalition to retake the prime minister's office. Iraq's Shiite-dominated government is heavily influenced by two powerful clerics, and its decisions are often heavily laced with Shiite religious doctrine. Some call the country a thinly veiled theocracy like the one in neighboring Iran, where many members of Iraq's Shiite power structure took refuge during Saddam Hussein's rule....
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