Iraqi Shiites Organize to Block U.S. Plan

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/washpost/20040329/ts_washpost/a31905_2004mar28&cid=1802&ncid=1480

BAGHDAD -- With the turban of the clergy and the talk of a politician, Hashem Awadi, a young Shiite Muslim cleric, thumbed through papers that described the latest challenge to Washington's political blueprint for Iraq.

Here, the gaunt, 38-year-old said, was a leaflet that enumerated the objections of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the country's most powerful cleric, to Iraq's interim constitution. This, he said, was the letter the ayatollah sent to the United Nations (news - web sites) in protest. And here, displayed proudly, was the petition denouncing that constitution in what he said amounted to a "popular referendum."


"We want to make clear the will of the people," said Awadi, who heads the Ghadir Foundation, a religious institute in Baghdad that, by his count, has distributed as many as 10,000 of the petitions. "The people are burning."


Awadi, whose speech veers from Islamic law to Western freedoms, is one of the leaders of a vociferous grass-roots campaign unleashed by the edict published by Sistani's office March 8 questioning the legitimacy of the interim constitution.

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[sam sarrha]

1. This whole war a Drunks Pipe Dream, ..not thought out very well..

:toast: :wtf:

[IndianaGreen]

2. The more reason why we should pull the troops out of Iraq ASAP

and our politicians, and Presidential candidates, should bury any fantasies they may harbor about exacting a "peace with honor" out of this fiasco.

[rocktivity]

3. The politics of "blockage"

Sounds familiar...

:headbang:
rocknation

[leftchick]

4. there is not going to be a "handover"

of power to anyone. Even a fake handover ceremony will never happen. What a freakin mess....

[Disturbed]

5. Iraqis not stupid

The Iraqis know full well that the US only wants to colonize and control Iraq, financialy and militarily. The democracy thing was a sham.

[truthspeaker]

6. so they want some say in their own country's government

Silly Iraqis! Democracy is for white people!

[Barrett808]

7. kick

[0007]

8. One of the biggest heist in the history of this country has failed

and been exposed.

[wellst0nev0ter]

9. Shiites Flip-Flopping Again?

Geez, first we hear that they are for a quisling, democracy-in-name-only installed puppet government, and now they are against it. Will they ever make up their minds? :eyes: