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newswolf56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-05 09:00 PM
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5. Imagine if -- after our Revolution -- the French under Lafayette and...
the Prussians under von Steuben held our politicians at musket-point until they had written an "acceptable" constitution. The resultant war might still be going on. Yet that is precisely what we are doing to the Iraqis: forcing them at gunpoint to write a constitution, and only one to our liking.

(Yes I realize that -- American gunpoint or not -- the only constitution the Iraqis will now ever truly write will impose Sharia with all its built in horrors of theocracy, especially the total and permanent disenfranchisement of women and the imposition of deaths by fire, sword and stoning -- the only points upon which ALL of Iraq's Muslims can agree: hardly an improvement over the death-by-plastic-shredder regimen of the Hussein era. But this is a very different matter, another set of questions entirely.)
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