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DuctapeFatwa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 10:47 PM
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Iraqi 'constitution' made in USA: New puppet regime already in trouble.
When the foundation is laid wrong, anything you build falls down. That's what U.S. imperialism and the Bush administration are finding out regarding their strategy of invading and occupying Iraq. Everything starts to fall apart, and neither more guns nor cleverer public relations can put it together again.

On March 8 Washington finally succeeded in pushing all the members of the puppet Iraqi Governing Council to sign an interim constitution. President George W. Bush termed the event "an historic milestone." But within hours this great triumph of the imperialist occupation was already starting to crumble.

Shiite religious leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Husseini al-Sistani immediately issued an edict objecting to the new constitution. It said: "Any law prepared for the transitional period will not have legitimacy until it is approved by the elected national assembly."

Even the Western news media have to admit that al-Sistani has more popular backing than any of the Shiite "representatives" on the council. He has been pressing for direct elections to an Iraqi government. Washington has insisted on indirect selections, showing its fear that a government opposed to the U.S. occupation would result from a popular vote. Following al-Sistani's objections, almost all 25 members of the Iraqi Governing Council had something negative to say about the U.S.-imposed constitution. If even these people, whom the U.S. hand-picked to rule Iraq, are attacking the constitution, who will support it?

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