It's hard to take Mr Wright seriously.

He starts out by quoting university experts and an Arab analyst/editor who are speculating on the election turnout and bases the article headlines on them and then in his own article contradicts the expert/analyst quotes with statements from the horses mouth like;

Adel Abdul Mahdi, who is a leading contender to be prime minister, reiterated today that the new government does not want to emulate Iran. "We don't want either a Shiite government or an Islamic government," he said on CNN's "Late Edition." "Now we are working for a democratic government. This is our choice."

and

U.S. and regional analysts agree that Iraq is not likely to become an Iranian surrogate. Iraq's Arabs and Iran's Persians have a long and rocky history. During the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, Iraq's Shiite troops did not defect to Iran.

and

Iranian-born Sistani is now Iraq's top cleric — and the leader who pressed for elections when Washington favored a caucus system to pick a government. His aides have also rejected Iran's theocracy as a model, although the Shiite slate is expected to press for Islamic law to be incorporated in the new constitution.

You see Iran had a meeting with Sistani prior to the election and Sistani told Iran to take a hike and didn't want any part of there political policies.

Looks like Mr Wright was hoping that most would only read the beginning of his article in hopes of fueling the Bush haters to try and discredit the Iraqi policy.

Seems to me that this turned out to be a great outcome for the US as all parties will have a say in the making of the Iraqi constitution.