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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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From: Kenneth E. Phillipps9/29/2005 8:08:20 PM
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A historic analogy to Iraq from 200 years ago. Why Islam is enshrined in the Iraqi constitution. Americans are seen as invaders out to rob Iraqis of their religion and family honor.

"On July 6, 1808, King Joseph of Spain presented a draft constitution that for the first time in Spain's history, offered an independent judiciary, freedom of the press, and the abolition of the feudal privileges of the aristocracy and the Church. Ecclesiastical overlords still owned thousands of towns and villages, inhabited by some of Europe's most wretched tenants. Far from demanding the implementation of the new constitution, however, the peasants obeyed the priests, who summoned them to fight against the ungodly innovations of the foreign invader - for Joseph was the brother of Napoleon and had been placed on the Spanish throne by French troops. That was all that mattered -- not what was proposed by who proposed it."

Harpers, October 2005 - Page 16
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