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Islam Dominates Iraq's Draft Constitution
yahoo/ap ^ | July 27 05 | yahoo/ap

Posted on 07/27/2005 1:03:11 PM PDT by churchillbuff

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To: churchillbuff

I didn't say it makes it allright, only that this is a draft, not final and one among many.

From your source:

"Members of the constitutional committee said the draft was among several and none would be final until parliament approves the charter by Aug. 15."


21 posted on 07/27/2005 1:16:57 PM PDT by SeaBiscuit (God Bless all who defend America and Friends, the rest can go to hell.)
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To: Frenetic
"So, Iran won?" - Perhaps. But not becuase they were smart. """"

Uh, if they helped feed us the bad information that caused our invasion of Iraq, then they were smart. Chabadi, or whatever his name is - - the guy who said IRaq had WMDs and was an imminent threat to the US - - may have been an Iranian agent. If so, you can't call them stupid, because our invasion knocked out their enemy and has set up a government that's a potential ally of IRan.,

22 posted on 07/27/2005 1:17:48 PM PDT by churchillbuff
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To: churchillbuff
This is the sort of thing that happens when you put the cart before the horse. At some point down the road we're going to have no choice but to end up threatening to obliterate most of these Middle Eastern countries anyway, just as we had to threaten to obliterate Germany and Japan in WWII in order to civilize them. What the Iraqi consitution says doesn't make much of a difference at this point.

I think it was a noble, but misguided, effort.

23 posted on 07/27/2005 1:17:52 PM PDT by jpl
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To: churchillbuff

I stopped reading and began deciphering when I came across the word "occupation" twice


24 posted on 07/27/2005 1:19:12 PM PDT by daku
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To: jmc1969

"If the Sunnis vote in December Allawi is back in power and not the religious Shia, that is the difference between a Democracy and just another Islamic country."

Why would the Sunnis vote for Allawi rather than Sunni candidates?


25 posted on 07/27/2005 1:20:25 PM PDT by Canard
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To: churchillbuff

Sunni or later, Shiite happens.


26 posted on 07/27/2005 1:20:42 PM PDT by OB1kNOb (...forgiving (terrorists) is God's function. Our job is to arrange the mtg.-N. Schwartzkopf)
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To: razoroccam

Excellent. I hear the Indian Ocean is a great place to be this time of the year.


27 posted on 07/27/2005 1:20:43 PM PDT by Almondjoy
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To: churchillbuff

"our invasion knocked out their enemy and has set up a government that's a potential ally of IRan.,"

Big 10-4 there, because we also helped set up a client state for China while we were at it.


28 posted on 07/27/2005 1:20:51 PM PDT by OpusatFR (Try permaculture and get back to the Founders intent. Mr1" cfferson lives!)
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To: daku
I stopped reading and began deciphering when I came across the word "occupation" twice""""

SO you're saying the article is lying? are you saying that the draft Iraq constitution DOESN't give a special designated role to Islam? Where is the evidence that this is a lie? I'd think the reporter's claim could be disproved in a nanosecond if the document doesn't include what the reporter says it includes.

29 posted on 07/27/2005 1:21:10 PM PDT by churchillbuff
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To: jpl

Some of the people here are forgetting what a democracy means, it means that the people of that country get to chose their government.

Reports from Iraq are that Shia are very unhappy with the moral rules of the UIA and their failure to maintain security and plan on voting in much larger numbers for Allawi a secular Shia in the next election.

The Sunnis will likely vote this time as well and they will likely form a coalition government with Allawi, and some Kurds. The secular forces are looking good for the next election.


30 posted on 07/27/2005 1:21:30 PM PDT by jmc1969
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To: razoroccam

I'm sure the sheep of Montana love that beach front property you own :-)


32 posted on 07/27/2005 1:23:46 PM PDT by teacherwoes (If you can read this...thank a caring teacher)
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To: Almondjoy

"I hear the Indian Ocean is a great place to be this time of the year."

Naaaaaaah - Monsoon's on.


33 posted on 07/27/2005 1:24:25 PM PDT by razoroccam (Then in the name of Allah, they will let loose the Germs of War (http://www.booksurge.com))
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To: Canard

You don't understand, Sunnis will vote for Sunni candidates and pick up about 20% of the vote, but in order to form a government in Iraq you need a 2/3rds majority in parliment and there is no way in hell they are going along with the religious Shia to form a government with them. Allawi is a secular Shia ex-Baathist that has a large amount of support in the Sunni community so they would be somewhat content with him compaired to the religious Shia he looks very good to them.


35 posted on 07/27/2005 1:25:16 PM PDT by jmc1969
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To: USF; Fred Nerks

Islam won't die ping!


36 posted on 07/27/2005 1:25:19 PM PDT by jan in Colorado ("My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." Hosea 4:6)
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To: churchillbuff

The Christians that are left will have a hard time - but then again they always have - ever since this satanic ideology appeared.


38 posted on 07/27/2005 1:26:32 PM PDT by eleni121 ('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
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To: jmc1969

Thats why democracy is not a good form of government unless tempered by a Constitution, and why our founders gave us a Republic, not a pure democracy.


39 posted on 07/27/2005 1:26:48 PM PDT by Jack Black
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To: churchillbuff

And the die hard NAZIs and Japanese also took the acts of the US as a reason to attack, but in the end the majority accepted.


40 posted on 07/27/2005 1:26:56 PM PDT by xmm0 (This post has been brought to you by the letters "U," "S," and "A" and Amendment number 1.)
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