The United Nations official charged with election assistance yesterday threw a barb at American troops in Iraq,accusing them of conducting an "overenthusiastic" campaign to promote this weekend’s Iraqi election.

The chief of the U.N. Electoral Assistance Division, Carina Perelli, was asked in a press conference about reports that American troops helped Iraqi officials distribute information on the electoral process to Iraqi citizens, and encouraged them to participate in Sunday’s vote.

Ms. Perelli said that U.N. officials spent time "asking, begging military commanders precisely not to do that," but the time has not been well-spent. The Americans were "overenthusiastic in trying to help out with these elections," she said. "We have basically been saying they should try to minimize their participation because this is an Iraqi process."

--The New York Sun

What the hell are they thinking?! Helping educate people on how their election will be run? We can't have any of that!!!

It's just more of the same old damned if you do, damned if you don't. If the military hadn't helped educate people about the elections the UN would just be complaining that Iraqi's weren't being educated about the elections.