Iraq: This is What Democracy Looks Like?

[swag]

via Kevin Drum at http://www.washingtonmonthly.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/04/international/middleeast/04iraq.html?ei=5094&en=9540007c4ff9499c&hp=&ex=1128398400&partner=homepage&pagewanted=all

"Under the new rules, the constitution will fail only if two-thirds of all registered voters — rather than two-thirds of all those actually casting ballots — reject it in at least 3 of the 18 provinces.

....Given that fewer than 60 percent of registered Iraqis voted in the January elections, the chances that two-thirds would both show up at the polls and vote against the document in three provinces would appear to be close to nil."

[mike_c]

1. oh, isn't that a nice little technicality to insure that the politicians..

...who know what's best for the marks rubes proles people always get their way. Fucking brilliant.

[Disturbed]

2. If ths Iraqi Constitution passes it will make things...

worse for Iraq.


The Last Thing Iraq Needs Now is the Passing of its Draft Constitution
The West has embraced a radical pro-Iranian elite and created a festering wound with the Sunnis

by Scott Ritter

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1002-24.htm