Iraq constitution seen worsening insurgency-report

[sabra]

http://today.reuters.com/News/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=L26557825

Iraq constitution seen worsening insurgency-report

LONDON, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Iraq's rushed constitutional process has deepened ethnic and sectarian rifts and is likely to worsen the insurgency and hasten the country's violent break-up, the International Crisis Group (ICG) said on Monday.

"The constitution is likely to fuel rather than dampen insurgency," said Robert Malley, head of the think-tank's Middle East and North Africa programme, introducing an ICG report.

"A compact based on compromise and broad consent could have been a first step in a healing process. Instead it is proving yet another step in a process of depressing decline."


Iraqis are to vote on Oct. 15 in a constitutional referendum on what the ICG calls a weak document that lacks consensus.

[Missy M]

1. Not only have we managed to decimate a country but now we....

will be responsible for the break up of that country. How much worse can it get.

[FloridaPat]

2. Three more years of * and no opposition party against the invasion.

It could get pretty bad.

[Barrett808]

3. Our long national nightmare of Bush misrule... n/t