Bush's poster child for Iraq changing her mind a bit

[julialnyc]

This was the lady from the State of the Union address, Republican convention and photographed with the purple thumb

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/HAM421341.htm
Secular Iraqis said on Wednesday a proposed new constitution left no room for doubt about the Islamist path the country was heading down two years after a U.S.-led invasion was supposed to produce greater freedoms.

The document presented to parliament on Monday is suffused with the language of political Islam in defining the state, and assigns a primary role to Islam as a source for legislation.

"The draft aborts the democratic process Iraqis hoped for and is a big victory for political Islam," said writer Adel Abdel-Amir. "Islamic law, not the people, has become the source of authority."

The draft says Islam is the official religion of the state and there can be no law that contradicts the "fixed principles of its rulings". The preamble says the constitution responds to "the call of our religious and national leaders and the insistence of our great religious authorities".

Language guaranteeing "rights and freedoms" is subordinate to the primary position given to Islam, opponents say.

"Human rights should not be linked to Islamic Sharia law at all. It should be listed separately in the constitution," said Safia Souhail, Iraq's ambassador to Egypt.

The prominent women's rights campaigner denounced wording that grants each religious sect the right to run its own family courts -- apparently doing away with previous civil codes -- as an open door to further Islamicise the legal system.

Although in practice, many Iraqis end up having recourse to religious authorities or informal tribal law, the idea of a united civil code is central to the modern state, Souhail said.

"This will lead to creating religious courts. But we should be giving priority to the law," she said.

"When we came back from exile, we thought we were going to improve rights and the position of women. But look what has happened -- we have lost all the gains we made over the last 30 years. It's a big disappointment."

[Carni]

1. What did the dummy think would happen?

How is it that I as *a nobody* with limited knowledge of foreign affairs and only basic internet access at my disposal...could foresee all this happening, before we even invaded Iraq (an invasion based on lies of course, which I also knew because the forged documents reports were all over the net)

and yet all these so called "great minds" here and abroad and all of our intelligence agencies and Pentagon planners couldn't predict that any of this mess would come to fruition?

[OrlandoGator]

2. At first I thought this thread was going to be about Jessica Lynch.

She changed her mind a long time ago.

[Montauk6]

3. I thought it would be about either the pro-war mom or the Iraqi shill

sent down to Camp Casey.

[julialnyc]

6. It could be about many people

One person added to the list of those who Bush used as a nice photo and screwed over in real life.

[me b zola]

4. Welcome to bush**world

...where disappointment & tyranny reigns.

[Solly Mack]

5. Oh, I'm sorry. Did Bush lie to you?

with the seasons come changes in window dressing...whatever sells one month is out of fashion the next