Is it not the USA that is demanding equal rights for ALL in Iraq? Seems to me we have gone to great lengths to ASSURE that each faction will have a voice in their Government
Let me sell you a bridge.
You have got to be kidding about this. We have lost our mask of righteousness in the world. The PPIC et al are in this for their own personal financial gain and self aggrandizement.
Iraq refuses to cooperate with the PPIC by becoming US-Junior. Ooops.
news.bbc.co.uk
"The latest American plan for Iraq's political future is running into trouble.
The country's most senior Shia Muslim cleric, Ayatollah Ali Sistani, is reported to feel it fails to give a sufficient role to the Iraqi people - or to acknowledge the role of Islam in Iraqi society....
First, the ayatollah, and apparently other religious figures, fear that the Americans and their allies in the Governing Council will dominate the caucuses - and weed out Islamists they regard as unsympathetic to them.
Second, they believe that only full elections will give the Iraqi Shia the political representation they feel they are entitled to, as 60% of the population.
Getting the US plan back on track will pose tricky problems.
At root, the challenge is one of building confidence. Long ruled by a Sunni elite in Baghdad, the Shia need to be reassured they will have a fair share of power.
But, equally, secular Iraqis and the non-Shia communities (Kurds, Sunnis, Christians and others) need to be reassured that the new Iraq will not be a Khomeini-style Islamic state.
Many Shia insist this is not want they want. They say what matters is to create a democratic Iraq in which no group will be able to impose its wishes on any other. "
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What were people saying before the war?
2/12/2003 "...It is a commonly-held belief about the country that his often brutal rule has been the glue holding its fractured communities together.
I believe one must plan not just for the disappearance of the regime but for what takes its place... It is not clear to me that this has been thought about by the administration
---Richard Murphy, Former US Assistant Secretary of State
His family's control has been so dictatorial that there are no real political institutions that might take over the running of the state if he were deposed. What could follow is a chaotic power vacuum.
Iraq has no serious internal opposition, and there are doubts about the various organisations that have set themselves as opposition groups in exile - some are badly run and disunited, others have no popular support in Iraq at all.
The army, widely seen as the institution to keeping control of the country, may be the key to deposing Iraq's ruler and keeping the country in one piece.
Reports in the US press have said that the US administration is considering a plan to occupy Iraq and install a US-led military government as a way of avoiding the country's chaotic disintegration..."
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