The United States had hoped the document would knit together Iraq's three main communities - Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds -pointing a way toward an end to the bloody Sunni-led insurgency and U.S. withdrawal.
Instead, the constitution presented to the Iraqi parliament does more to split them, and the country, apart.
The U.S. Constitution doesn't even unite this country. As long as the left continues to be hellbent committing treason and sedition, no piece of paper in the world would be able to unite it.
Sunnis denounced the document in apocalyptic terms. Only three of the fifteen Sunni members of the drafting committee even showed up for the final meeting. Not our constitution, was their message. Not our Iraq.
Like the left in this country, the Sunnis are a distinct minority hellbent on running the show. The Sunnis can't run things anymore so, they stall and obstruct. Sound familiar?
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They try to ingore the fact that the Sunnis are being run by the old Baathist party, and hence are very uneasy about having to live with thier minority status, especially since they used their influence in such a brutal way under Saddam.
As I was taught in the Marines, if you aren't part of the solution, then you're part of the problem. The Sunnis would appear to have taken the wrong track (again).
Maybe they aren't getting a proper breakfast and our socialists could send them tons of nutritious food at the American taxpayer's expense.
G,
Very true. Most of them couldn't hold a decent junior high level discussion on any topic or issue, because they have been fed so many lies. They are brainwashed political, moonie-like robots. They ignore anything that is true and invent things to fit what message they think is right.
But beyond all of that, the prerequisite of any developed message they invent, is whatever is opposite of Bush. If Bush is for it, they side against it. If he is against it, they are for it.
They never formulate policies and strategies, until Bush does something. They never act, they only react. They never lead. And they don't follow. But, they are not completely completely worthless.
At the very least, they can serve as bad examples.
Gindy,
I hope they keep their mouths shut and just vote for it. Hopefully they will not make waves during the campaign, yet when the time comes, vote their hearts.
Most of them watched their Shiite and Kurdish counterparts come out of that polling place, with big smiles and their finger raised high. That was euphoric, for the vast majority of them.'
I think they want it badly enough.
Mustang,
Excellent point.
Maybe, if they had actually gotten the food they were supposed to in the oil for food program, they wouldn't be so malnourished and their brains would be more receptive to learning?
The Sunnis don't want to be left out, and if the constitution is approved, they'll be back.
Journalists are so silly...
First the Sunnis boycott the elections. Now they're objecting to the constitution--after they've been intractable during negotiations.
A pendulum has a way of swinging from one extreme to the other, I guess. Sunnis held power for many years; now they feel threatened, as the minority.
Any gloating, from the left or the right, over the constitutional struggle in Iraq is poorly founded--regardless of one's feelings about GWB. The people of Iraq deserve better than such gloating over the matter of determining their own governing system.
At least Saddam is out of power. I fail to see how that's a bad thing.
I found an interesting article in the Jerusalem Post. The author says that Sunnis do not have to fear Kurdish-Shiite domination on them, because the proposed constitution permits their autonomy. The problem is, Arabs are accustomed to centralized governments. Also, Sunnis face difficulties in adjusting to new reality. They have been the ruling class during the Baathist era.
But they must understand that it is their interest to accept new constitution. For further information, see the link below.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1125281965142&apage=1
Until now, I can't say I'd ever thought of USA Today, or most of their newspaper output for that matter, as ultra-leftist. Now, I am fully aware that they are. I certainly won't be buying them now if they're going to pull this tommyrot on readers.
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