Come Again, What’s the Cause?
Those that have mapped the twisted and winding road that Bush & Co. set America on when their cabal set their sights on Iraq know that we’re a longs way off from the original course: finding and destroying Hussein’s WMDs.
However, it comes as no surprise to those of us that saw through Bush & Co.’s smoke screen, and recognized that, as the Downing Street Memo puts it, “the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy [of invading Iraq].” However, while the original pretext for going to war against Iraq was obviously based on hype;during moments of self-doubt one could imagine that Bush & Co. truly did believe on the righteousness of their crusade to “change the climate of the region” by establishing a beachhead in Iraq for “Liberal Democracy” (i.e., Western styled rule of law). Of course, such a prospect was an overly optimistic long-shot at best, or just another smoke screen at worst.
Well, at last, we appear to have an answer and, once again it would seem, Bush & Co. have abandoned the road map they set for us, and are taking America (and Iraq) on a road to who knows where:
Iraq secularists denounce “Islamist” constitution
24 Aug 2005 13:50:28 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Andrew HammondBAGHDAD, Aug 24 (Reuters) - 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”.
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“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.
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“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.”
So, Mr. President, our public servant, how do you respond to Cindy Sheehan’s question?
I came [to Crawford] two and a half weeks ago for one reason, to try and see the president and get an answer to a very simple question: What is the noble cause that he says my son died for?
