America backs Shar'ia in Iraqi constitution.

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. concessions to Islamists on the role of religion in Iraqi law marked a turn in talks on a constitution, negotiators said on Saturday as they raced to meet a 48-hour deadline under intense U.S. pressure to clinch a deal.

U.S. diplomats, who have insisted the constitution must enshrine ideals of equal rights and democracy, declined comment.

The Kurdish negotiator rushed to make clear his outrage at a deal on Islam: "We don't want dictatorship of any kind, including any religious dictatorship.

"Perhaps the Americans are negotiating to get a deal at any cost, but we will not accept a constitution at any cost," he said, adding that he believed Shi'ite leaders had used the precedent of
Afghanistan to win over the ambassador's support.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050820/ts_nm/iraq_dc



Bringing "freedom" to Iraq requires restricting the freedom of women.
Kind of reminiscent of burning down the village to save it.

Hypocrisy, America is thy name.