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For the first time in centuries, Iraq's Shiites are about to come into their own as the rulers, or at least the politically dominant community, in a key Arab country. In principle, the Iraqi elections will effectively ratify, and lend constitutional legitimacy to, a transformation that has been inexorably under way since the fall of Saddam Hussein.

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