[TomasUSMC]

Iraq's freshly minted legislators pounded out their first agreement on the 15 basic articles to guide their new constitution — including democracy, federalism, separation of powers and making Islam the state religion.


Whats the use? We spend in the end a trillion dollars and probably 5000 lives for a country that makes ISLAM THE STATE RELIGION.

Thats like a cured lung cancer patient telling you they are taking up smoking unfiltered Camels.

[goldstategop]

Islam IS the religion of virtually all Iraqis. Let's point out a statement on religious values is also included in our 50 state constitutions. It doesn't make us a theocracy. Iraq won't be a carbon copy of America but it won't be an Iranian-style theocracy either. Our soldiers are fighting to keep our country safe from terrorists and we have to remember who the enemy is; its not the people of Iraq and their elected legislators trying to map out the country's first democratic Constitution. As a political exercise, it has grassroots participation absent in the just rejected EU Charter.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)