Iraqis Are Pissed That the US is Writing Their Constitution.

[leftchick]

What a surprise....

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1753758,00.html

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With the deadline looming for what the Bush administration sees as a key landmark in Iraq's recovery, the US has become more involved in the push to produce a draft constitution on time, The Washington Post reported on Saturday.

"The Americans say they don't intervene, but they have intervened deep," Mahmoud Othman, a Kurdish member of the constitution committee, told the paper.

"They gave us a detailed proposal, almost a full version of a constitution. They try to compromise the different opinions of all the political blocs," Othman said.
" The US officials are more interested in the Iraqi constitution than the Iraqis themselves, because they promised their people that it will be done August 15."

According to the paper, US ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad is now taking a central role in bringing rival Iraqi political groups together over the draft, offering written compromises on key issues in dispute, like regional autonomy and the role of Islam in Iraqi law.

.... Zalmay the fixer. :eyes:

[rodeodance]

1. has anyone seen this US version of the Iragi constitution? would

be most interesting.

[Dudley_DUright]

3. Juan Cole has

"They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq. Why don't we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it's worked for over 200 years and we're not using it anymore."

http://www.juancole.com/2005/08/joke-of-day-constitution-they-keep.html

[Old and In the Way]

5. Good question.

I want to see the part that guarantees US airbases and first dibs on their oilfields.

Strange that we haven't seen this document published anywhere. What kind of democratic document needs to be hidden from the people?

[H5N1]

7. They didn't expect to actually see the document... did they?

Think about it: if the people can see it, so can terrorists!
And then the terrorists have won, and what was it all for?
Perhaps they will keep the document in that empty lock box
labeled 'Social Security.'

[leftchick]

8. those bases are key to the whole shebang!

I hope we get access to the details. This whole farce of a constitution is pissing off the puppet government. Imagine how it will piss off the rebels? :(

[leesa]

2. They expected something different?

Perhaps they need to boot Khalilzad out. They control Baghdad, so why not?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

4. Let's count the 'Key Landmarks' to date:

-End of Major Combat Operations (Mission Accomplished!)
-Saddam found and imprisoned
-"The First Free/Fair Elections Ever in Iraq"


now "The Constitution".

How many more "Key Landmarks" will it take? Are we there yet?

Will the last one be "Peace With Honor/Flying off the roof of the U.S. Embassy in helicopters?" :shrug:

[cthrumatrix]

6. amerikans are more concerned w/preseason football and

fantasy teams...

Our media makes sure that the truth is not shared...a perfect match.

[kentuck]

9. We'd be pissed too if they wrote our Constitution...

Wonder if we would still have people's heads and hands in public stocks?