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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (171873)	10/4/2005 1:56:55 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

The government just changed the rules midstream in order to push the Constitution through. The US muddled matters as well by giving Sunnis seats they didn't 'earn' in the voting. Then again if you're threatened with death if you vote, it's not exactly a fair election in the first place. It's not a fair election if the candidates are too frightened to put their names on the ballot either. Such is voting in a war zone. The flip-flip side of this mess is that things might actually be better if the Constitution were defeated. The Sunnis would claim political victory and feel that their minority voice was actually heard. Everyone would be back at the negotiating table to work on the problems of fundamentalism, oil revenues and federalism and would have to compromise. As it is, the majority Shiites in particular are just bullying their way and calling it democracy. I'm sure there's an element of revenge in the whole thing but does revenge build a stable country? It sure looks like partitioning to me with the Sunnis being outta jobs (de-Baathification) and pensions and oil revenues. It looks awfully desperate but it's just a guess since reporting from within Iraq is spotty at best.