Iraqi constitution dangerously short of US goals: experts

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Iraq's new draft constitution falls dangerously short of initial US goals and will likely fuel an increase in violence in the war-battered country, American analysts said.

"It's not a good path we are on right now," said Flynt Leverett, of the Brookings Institution think tank here. "You have a situation now in which one or two things will happen, and both of them are bad."

He said either the minority Sunni Arabs will succeed in mustering a two-thirds majority in three of the country's 18 provinces to sink the charter or will fail and end up feeling disenfranchised and disgruntled.

Either scenario will produce a political crisis, Leverett said. "What we have now is a situation which is the beginning of a countdown to something that will look like civil war in Iraq."

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[rodeodance]

1. well dah-----

[acmavm]

2. Since even I had that one figured out can I be considered an 'expert'

now? I bet I could do a better job than the liars, crooks, murderers, and thugs in the current administration.

[rfkrfk]

3. third option, Sunnis can leave

the other 80% would be glad to see them go.

Iraq will eventually break up.
The constitution is just a transition.
The Sunnis, a 20% minority, with no oil, can't stop
what the other 80% want.