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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49276)	10/17/2005 3:40:53 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Opposite view point, only time will tell, it must be real issue for many to see referendum taking place and passing, these voices cannot appreciate the struggle and experience of freedom. On a morning after it is once again the usual call of disasters and fragmentation. Issue at stake Iraq was better off under a tyrant and a free Iraq is unmanageable or Iraqi will fail in governance. A simmering enslaved nation under a tyrant is better than a nation that is trying under difficult circumstances to free itself from the crimes of the past.. Constitutions can play a crucial role in founding and unifying new or renewing states; Iraq is no exception, and in the future drafting a constitution could play a key part in reunifying and strengthening national consciousness of the country. But this process has been imposed from outside, it is not an indigenous Iraqi process, and the draft constitution being debated is not a legitimate Iraqi product. Iraqis are still suffering under conditions of severe deprivation, violence, lack of basic necessities including clean water, electricity, jobs - crafting a new constitution does not appear high on their agenda. Is a constitution approved by nearly more than 9 m votes with possibility of defeat by any three smaller provinces is an imposition from outside? How else effort of civil society that transfers its power to sovereign or a compact can be made. <<The constitutional process culminating in Saturday's referendum is not a sign of Iraqi sovereignty and democracy taking hold, but rather a consolidation of U.S. influence and control according to Phillis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies. Whether Iraq's draft constitution is approved or rejected, the decision is likely to make the current situation worse.>> Every state that has gone from absolutism to self governance had gone through struggle with entrenched interests; it would be no difference in Iraq. Revolutions and bloodsheds defined maturity of Europe and western civilisation, they did not learn respect of life in the crib, they made their mistakes and in the process learnt to live freely, it is most important that nation can take that free road. Now with these referendums the issue of who is going to govern Iraq, few handfuls of baathists or the majority is once for all settled. Freedom is disorderly but order will appear out of this disorder like it has in Europe after major wars, Iraq is learning a lesson of freedom in quick time, it has been bloody, but those who are lecturing should realize that French revolution was far more bloodier so was England under Cromwell or US war of freeing human beings! Change is a tedious business but change where freedom and popular will replaces oppression shall be successful with or without external hand. Phillis Bennis: The Iraqi Constitution: A Referendum for Disaster truthout.org