Sunday, August 14, 2005

Take one Constitution and call me in the morning

So here I go, writing down my opinions and observations........

I got a big kick out of lessoning to several of the talking heads this morning explaining how that when the new Iraqi constitution come out tomorrow everything is going to start getting better. Even though it will most likely either be rejected by one side because it will set up a federal state with strong regional power, or it will set up a unitary state with weak regional powers. It will also have problems over wither Islam will be "the" source or "a" source of law. Sounds like the constitution is in for a long hard fight no mater what from it takes.

I wonder if any of the people who got us into this "interesting" situation have given any thought to where we will be if Iraq ends up with a constitution that makes it a strong unitary state with little regional power, that uses Islam as the "the" source of Iraqi law and where women have few if any legal or political rights? Wouldn't this leave us with only one justification for our preemptive war?

WMD: Not there
Attack terrorists: Not there when we started, but there now.
Bring democracy to Iraq: Only if you think Iran is democratically ruled.
Get rid of Sadam: Well, he is in custody. So that could count but he has yet to arraigned or tried.

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