Which comes first: the cart or the horse? Iraq’s Sunnis cannot seem to decide. Sunni political and/or religious groups urged a boycott of Sunday’s elections. Sunni terrorists scared many of their brethren away from the polling places. But today,

A leading group of Iraqi Sunni clerics have said the country's landmark election lacks legitimacy as so many Sunnis did not take part in the vote.

What? This overt failure engineering. Do these Sunni “clerics” really expect to be taken seriously? They coerce Sunnis into avoiding the elections, then go kicking and screaming because many Sunnis avoided the elections.

Unfortunately, incoherent Sunni cries of illegitimacy will be taken seriously by European and U.S. lefties. The Left-Wing lost all capacity to think clearly or independently decades ago. But in realpolitik, it will not really matter.

While the Sunnis can continue to cause trouble, I strongly doubt that those Iraqis who did vote – Shiites, Kurds, Turkoman, etc. – will permit the Sunnis to derail the drafting of a national constitution later this year.

Iraq’s majority has tasted freedom. They will not leave the road to democracy so easily. Iraq’s majority will try to wheel and deal with the Sunnis to a point. But if Sunni terror continues, it will be crushed by Iraqi forces made up of free men and women. That is how democracy works, like it or not:

In Iraq's third largest city, Mosul, the chief of police has given insurgents an ultimatum, warning that unless they hand over weapons within two weeks, they face a crackdown.

The BBC's Paul Wood in Baghdad says the warning can be seen as sign of a new resolve to pursue the insurgents on the part of security forces, soon to be backed by an elected government.