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To: Road Walker who wrote (252670)	9/26/2005 1:51:47 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572209

You need to spend a bit of time reading about what's going on... you're naive view of the situation is at best disturbing. How can you be so misinformed? How can you distort the truth so much? The implications of your earlier post was that the "new Iraq" will institutionalize the following 1- Iraqi individuals in general will have less rights than they had under Saddam's regime. 2- Women will be forbidden to wear western clothes. 3- Husbands will be allowed to beat their wives with no recourse for the wife. 4- Some anonymous mullahs (you haven't yet said whom) will have the ability to veto legislation. And in each case, you are wrong. All Shias were denied the right to practice their religious rituals under Saddam, and all Iraqis had zero recourse for justice against Baath party members who wronged them. Women under Saddam had "equal rights" you say - equal to whom, their dog? There is nothing in the Koran that bans western clothes or allows indiscriminate wife beating. The rules of "Sharia Law" are not universally agreed upon by Muslims, so your interpretation of what is and is not Sharia-compliant doesn't really mean too much. Some militias in southern Iraq killing individuals under some bogus claim of "enforcing Sharia law" are nothing more than common criminals, and the "new Iraq" will need to either convert them to civil behavior or kill them. And there is nothing in the constitution that gives any mullah any veto power. So all your previous claims are totally wrong. And you say I'm mininformed? It's ridiculous. It sounds like you are falling into the mistake of many of these article writers of letting your anti-invasion bias shape your views as opposed to reality. If you want to claim the "new Iraq" will descend into chaos and civil/sectarian war instead of some type of civil state, there may be some basis for that. But your conclusions (the four listed above) do not follow at all from what is going on in Iraq.