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Date Posted:
Oct/11/2009 1:34 AM
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notbobshope, thanks for the welcom.
You said; "Of course the Iraq Constitution is an Islamic one, you failed to note and Sharia is also a factor that makes it some what different from the U.S. one and the First
Amendment, though some on the religious right assert the "god" mentioned there is Jesus Christ."
Although this wasn't my point in posting this here's
a few facts you might not be aware of:"The new Iraqi Constitution lacks legitimacy. It was drafted under U.S. supervision by a body hand-chosen by the U.S. Military Occupation Authorities, and subject to final approval by the U.S. proconsul, Paul Bremer." However, the Constitution as drafted provides no limits on what issues the interim government, in whatever form it takes, may decide--including continuing the U.S.-initiated privatization policies, negotiating major replacement oil contracts, and most significantly signing a Status of Forces Agreement with the U.S. to provide an Iraqi invitation to the 100,000+ U.S. troops who will remain in Iraq."
"The Constitution calls for a federal system of government, in which, despite language to the contrary, the sectors are almost certain to be determined by Iraqis' ethnic and religious identity. The division of Iraqis into Shia', Sunni, Kurdish, Turkoman, Assyrian, Christian identities is the basis for the U.S.-created Iraqi Governing Council, and is the likely basis of the division of power within a federal Iraqi system. This causes three major problems: 1) there is no representation for Iraqis who identify first as Iraqi citizens, and only secondarily as Shia'a, Kurds, or whatever. 2) The ethnic/religious quotas assume that all Kurds, Shia'a, Sunni, Assyrians, or others represent monolithic political blocs. 3) A system based on ethnic or religious sectoral interests is inherently unstable, in most cases giving minority and majority populations too little or too much power, and undermining national identity as Iraqis. Lebanon 's years of confessional (religiously determined) division and war demonstrates the potential dangers." Foreign Policy In Focus http://www.fpif.org/cgaa/talkingpoints/0403iraq-const.html
My point was/is this; The money we've borrowed to fund these wars and maintain military bases around the world in our efforts to portray the illusion of an Imperialistic empire that we can't afford, would fund the type of healthcare and education system this government has designed for Iraq. I was taught that Charity(love) was first to start at home. Read Geo. Washington's farewell address.
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LIFE SUCKS_but, The Alternative Is Unacceptable
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