Anti-war protests swell outside Bush ranch

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050814/ts_alt_afp/usiraq_050814030929;_ylt=Ani8VaY_MD6LVVfrzwfusHis0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MjBwMWtkBHNlYwM3MTg-
Anti-war protests swell outside Bush ranch

Sat Aug 13,11:09 PM ET

CRAWFORD, Texas, (AFP) - Anti-war protests swelled outside
President George W. Bush's Texas ranch, as US officials reportedly worked behind the scenes to get
Iraq's new constitution ready by its Monday deadline.

With the deadline looming for what the Bush administration sees as a key landmark in Iraq's recovery, the US has become more involved in the push to produce a draft constitution on time, The Washington Post reported Saturday.

"The Americans say they don't intervene, but they have intervened deep," Mahmoud Othman, a Kurdish member of the constitution committee, told the paper.

"They gave us a detailed proposal, almost a full version of a constitution. They try to compromise the different opinions of all the political blocs," Othman said.....

"The US officials are more interested in the Iraqi constitution than the Iraqis themselves, because they promised their people that it will be done August 15."

[crikkett]

1. kick n/t

[faithnotgreed]

2. ill kick for this truth

"The Americans say they don't intervene, but they have intervened deep," Mahmoud Othman, a Kurdish member of the constitution committee, told the paper.

"They gave us a detailed proposal, almost a full version of a constitution. They try to compromise the different opinions of all the political blocs," Othman said.....

[leesa]

3. The fake Iraqi Constitution is as meaningless as the fake Iraqi election

Don't let them get away with this nonsense.

[Booster]

4. Just like our very own Constitution is beginning to be fake.

[wli]

5. as if our own democratic institutions are any less fake these days n/t

[dogindia]

6. kick n/t