Iraq constitution seen worsening insurgency

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-report By Alistair Lyon
25 minutes ago

LONDON (Reuters) - Iraq's rushed constitutional process has deepened ethnic and sectarian rifts and is likely to worsen the insurgency and hasten the country's violent break-up, the International Crisis Group (ICG) said on Monday.

"The constitution is likely to fuel rather than dampen insurgency," said Robert Malley, head of the think-tank's Middle East and North Africa program, introducing an ICG report.

"A compact based on compromise and broad consent could have been a first step in a healing process. Instead it is proving yet another step in a process of depressing decline."

Iraqis are to vote on October 15 in a constitutional referendum on what the ICG calls a weak document that lacks consensus.

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[oblivious]

1. Oh no, no, no. Everything will be fine.

You just have to understand these uncivilized tribes. This is how to defeat the insurgency.

1. Hand over power to Iraqis. Was that in June 2004? That was certainly going to end the insurgency. I mean they just wanted to see Iraq run by Iraqis and then they'd settle down.

2. Ok, ok, so those Iraqis are a bit fanatical. So we'll give them democratic elections. That'll kill the insurgency for sure.

3. OK, so who could have predicted the unreasonable continuing fanaticism of these uncivilized people. Obviously what they want is a constitution. That'll certainly take the wind out of the insurgency's sails.

Everything will be ok now. Yes, just treat them like donkeys: a bit of carrot, a bit of stick and they'll stop acting up.

[SunDrop23]

2. That can't be the case, they are all freedom loving people.

[Village Idiot]

3. How can they NOT figure this out???

If I, in my limited mental capacity, can easily see that this marginalisation and exclusion of the Sunnis from the political process in Iraq will lead to nothing but balkanization and the inevitable civil war that ALWAYS follows badly partitioned, unstable countries, why the FUCK can't the USA???