[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Everything in that above excerpt..... Isn't that Iran?

[Tactical]

IRAQ: From a two bit dictator to another future rogue state. Wondering if we're just building another kingdom for the enemy to hoarde weapons in?

I'm about ready to prop them up and bring the troops home and see what happens from there. I think we've about done all we can do for those folks.

[Wiz]

ping

[wideawake]

No - Iran's constitution is Islamic law and it's religious authorities have more power than, and can overrule, secular authority.

This is saying that Iraq's constitution, while not Islamic law, cannot contradict Islamic law and that the religious leaders will have a seat at the table.

There is a difference.

No Iraqi constitution will be optimal.

[tkathy]

That should make for a hellhole, miserable, failed society that contributes nothing but mayhem.

[Dark Skies]

If Iraq can have no legislation that doesn't conform to Sharia, then they will not have a real democracy. Sharia, like Islam, is incompatible with democracy (if democracy is defined by human rights, rights of women, rights of free speech, etc.) If Sharia is the last word and if Sharia is based on how the imams interpret it (Sharia is actually the law as Allah defines it), looks like Iraq will be, to some degree, a theocracy.

Of course, it will take time to see what evolves, but I sure hate to think of all the American, British, Australian, Polish, Italian (etc.) blood that will have been spilt just to establish another Islamic theocracy.

I hope I am wrong about this.

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

Islam is the official religion of the state

Isn't Anglicism the official religion of the UK?

"No law that contradicts with its rules can be promulgated."

Could mean Sharia, or it could mean that prostitution will be outlawed.

[No.6]

OK, this is the third time in three days this article (under different news sources, not duplicates) has appeared.

You will *note* that as a token of journalistic integrity they did mention DRAFT language. Not final language. In fact this draft, which got published to the Iraqi people, has many of them protesting vigorously in support of human rights.

But, this is the third time in a row the article has FReepers instantly ready to give up on the whole Iraq thing. I can only imagine what it's doing to less politically informed readers.

See also http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1446487/posts

and

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1450974/posts

[Iron Matron]

We went to Iraq and did the job Bush said needed doing: Removing Saddam and the threat of WMD against the USA.

I'm not for staying there and Nation Building, or making muslimes conform to Western Standards - No one should get their panties twisted because muslimes would like to run their country their way. So long as they don't come over here and try and run the USA their way.

Speaking of this Country..it would be nice if our MIlitray could protect us for a change, it would be nice if our Borders were not so Purus..I'm tired of protecting muslimes in muslime countries. Muslimes will eventually turn against us anyway, I have no doubt.

[GravityFree]

Jeez, Rummy says the burn rate is 4 B-I-L-L-I-O-N dollars per month and what do we get . . . an Islamic constitution ?!?!? That and over 1,700 American lives is to high a price to pay to come clean up this place for the THIRD time 15 to 20 years from now. I'm hoping that Georgie Patton and Doug MacArthur are spinning so fast in their graves they will soon auger themselves out. Whatever happened to the concept of VICTORY ??? I don't want to hear anything about Arab or Islamic culture either. As inscrutable as the Japanese were a few decades of occupation turned them into good little capitalists ! ! !

[Tiger Smack]

time to leave ...this is just a future ENEMY

[John Lenin]

Time will tell what they do with this. It's up to Iraqi women to get full rights. That is intself will change the Islamic world.

[Honorary Serb]

The document also grants the Shiite religious leadership in the holy city of Najaf a "guiding role" in recognition of its "high national and religious symbolism."

This ayatollahzation of Iraq" is BAD NEWS for Christians, Sunni Arabs, and Kurds in Iraq, as well as for Americans, Brits, and most of the rest of the world. It is GOOD NEWS for the ayatollahs and mullahs of Iran (the most dangerous country in the world), who will at least get an ally, if not a puppet!

It would be a DISASTER if all that our troops have been fighting for is to create an even worse enemy than Saddam!!!! Can America do anything about it?