US$$$$$ and 1800+ soldiers to set up an Islamic nation

[Bluebear]

Happy, Bush voters?

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The Iraqi prime minister said Friday that the country's leading Shiite Muslim cleric hopes the constitution being drawn up will enshrine Islam as the main source of legislation — something opposed by Kurds and some Iraqi women activists.

A younger radical Shiite cleric, meanwhile, urged Iraqis to participate in the constitutional process but added that he personally would not vote in elections planned for year's end because of the presence of foreign troops.

Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari commented on the constitution after spending nearly two hours with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the most influential cleric in the Shiite Muslim community, which makes up 60 percent of Iraq's population.

The two were believed to have talked about recent developments ahead of Sunday's meeting of political leaders from Iraq's various communities to try to resolve differences over the charter.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050805/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_shiites&printer=1

[Bluebear]

1. night shift

[AmandaRuth]

2. Sometimes I think that boosh's religious right base

couldn't care less about this, being that they want to establish a theocracy here, and throw those hussy women back in the kitchen where they belong, dammit. Secretly, I am sure they are taking notes, and plotting their own strategy. I could be wrong, but i see no outcry from the right about this.

And the Iraqi women are just an irritating detail to the neocons, so what as long as the Iraqi government stays friendly enough to the US to let us have our bases there and oil is privatized to ultimately benefit Big Oil.

The whole thing is sick.