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To: greenspirit who wrote (79018)3/2/2003 2:47:11 PM
From: Jacob Snyder  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
re: Iraqi Constitution:

1. The basic "fault" in the past, is that no significant fraction of the Iraqi population, with the recent exception of the Kurds, said, "Give me liberty or give me death". No "scrap of paper" means anything unless people are willing to support it, with their lives if necessary. And no foreign army can substitute for that willingness.

2. <centralization has lost its appeal> Without it, you get another Afghanistan: chaos, a playground for foreign interests and local warlords.

3. a State Religion is incompatible with the ideals stated in the Preamble.

4. Will the Assembly of the Kurdish Region be acceptable to the Turks?

5. Will the southern Shiites want their own Federated Region?

6. this document isn't clear about the division of power between the Regions and central governments. And that's the crucial question. How much of the oil revenue does the Kurdish Region get?
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