Ya know that much-touted "Iraq constitution"? Well, a few words on that..

[LynnTheDem]

bush & Cartel are already, and will be all next week, touting the constitution as proof of "success" and "progress".

So I wanna tell ya what that "constitution" is about;

1. It REPRESSES women.

2. It installs SHARIA LAW in Iraq.

3. It turns Iraq into an Iranian-style Islamic state.

So...now ya know what you're paying $7 billion USD/month for, and what 2000 Americans (so far) have died for, and what 25,000 (so far) Americans have lost limbs and eyes and brains etc for.

RAH.

RAH.

RAH.

[acmavm]

1. Are you trying to tell me that its everything that the bush** cabal

originally said that they wouldn't allow? That freedom is not really 'freedom'.

Well I'll be damned.

[LynnTheDem]

5. ICG; "Iraqi constitution will push Iraq toward full-scale civil war"

"Unmaking Iraq, the Constitutional Process Gone Awry,"

The Iraqi constitution as written will push that country toward full-scale civil war, a report from a nonprofit organization warns. Melissa Block talks with Robert Malley, director of the International Crisis Group's Middle East program.
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?l=1&id=3703

"It may well be more of a prelude to civil war than a step forward,"Anthony H. Cordesman said in an analysis for the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

The Bush administration endorsed Iraq's proposed new constitution yesterday, but analysts warned that some provisions can be interpreted to undermine everything from the distribution of political power to a secular judiciary, from women's rights to fair distribution of oil revenue.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/24/AR2005082402217_pf.html

There are, however, significant doubts about the religious nature of the new constitution...

"It is written by Islamists for Islamists"

Zainab and her friend Zahra, 37, are both deeply apprehensive about the effect the constitution will have on women's rights. Since "liberation" by US-led forces they have seen the growth in the power of Muslim clerics and the diminishing power of choice.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article318609.ece

The Iraqi constitution's downside for women
http://www.juancole.com/2005/09/iraqi-constitutions-downside-for-women.html

Iraqi Women May Lose Basic Rights Under New Constitution
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0723-06.htm

Americans Die for Sharia in Iraq

It's so Abdul the Iraqi can have six wives. It's so women can be forced to wear the abaya, alcohol can be banned, and sharia law – Muslim religious beliefs as interpreted by a council of mullahs and "grand ayatollahs" – can become the law of the land. As one of the Shi'ite clerics' representatives put it the other day:

"We don't want to see equality between men and women because according to Islamic law, men should have double of women. This is written in the Quran and according to God."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=4774

Yep I'd say this is the exact opposite bush & his Cartel spew, and exactly what the real experts warned would happen.

[leftchick]

2. and don't forget the latest amendment....

it is really pointless to even vote on it now because the latest amendment requires voting on it again in a few months! Even CNN pointed this out! :crazy:

[ClintonTyree]

3. Yeah, but as soon as they adopt it...........

the war will stop. Right? this whole thing will be over, the Iraqis will be free from the tyrant (who gassed his own people) Saddam, and "little America" will be open for business in the middle east, right? Right? RIGHT?
I guess, maybe not? If the American people had any idea what this "constitution" actually meant in terms of "freeing" Iraqis, they'd be be totally up in arms. They hear the word "constitution" and automatically think of our own. NOT! When people find out what our sons and daughters have been dying for, not to mention the cost of this folly, they're all going to shit a brick.
But hey, what does it matter? georgie got to be a "war time president", he drained the Treasury, enriched his corporate masters and screwed over the poor and middle classes again in the process. That's the definition of a "Conservative hero" if ever there was one.

[TomClash]

4. What a surprise

The purpose of the Iraq War was to secure the second largest pool of oil reserves in the world. No more, no less.

Your three points don't matter to the ruling class.

2,000 dead and 25,000 wounded soldiers don't matter either.

They'd kill you in a blink of an eye if it advanced the cause.