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IRAQ POLITICAL FARCE SCALES NEW HEIGHTS
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In any case, the "Law of Administration for the State of Iraq for the TransItional Period" is a neo-Orwellian instrument of imperialism imposed upon the people of Iraq by force through an invasion that flouted international law and the will of the United Nations : Madeleine Lee
AP reported Wednesday that "Iraqi lawmakers approved a set of last-minute amendments to the constitution without a vote on Wednesday, sealing a compromise designed to win Sunni support and boost chances for the charter's approval in a referendum just three days away."
How, one wonders, do "lawmakers" approve "amendments" without a vote ? The answer; " with intense U.S. pressure."
Believe nothing that Bush says ~ In essence, what we have here is the original U.S appointed Interim government has replaced itself as the legal government of Iraq and created an American dictated constitution, which virtually no Iraqi has seen. All of this accomplished while hiding behind the concrete walls of the American Green Zone ~ as a civil war explodes outside. Mark Jensen captures the true flavor of this outrage when he writes " Even North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly has more of a semblance of democracy than this."
Oh, and by the way ~ there is no mention of ending the permanent U.S. Bases, the continued occupation or the illegal privatization of Iraq in the Constitution.
Madeline Lee, United For Peace, confirms that the Iraq constitutional process is an American Sham that has taken political farce to new mind boggling heights.
Allen L Roland
The double illegality of Iraq's constitutional farce |
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Written by Madeleine Lee |
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Thursday, 25 August 2005
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3327/
AP reported in the early morning hours of Friday, Aug. 25, Baghdad time, that "The speaker of Iraq's parliament announced a one-day extension early Friday in talks on the new constitution -- a fourth attempt to win Sunni Arab approval. But he said that if no agreement is reached, the document would bypass parliament and be decided in an Oct. 15 referendum."
The drama around the Iraqi constitution is a fine epitome of the state of disorder that U.S. neoconservatives have bestowed on the unfortunate people of the Land of Two Rivers. -- What is now being done in the name of "the law" is, in fact, doubly illegal. -- First, as the text of Article 61 of the "Law of Administration for the State of Iraq for the Transitional Period" reproduced below shows, the Iraqi National Assembly is already in flagrant violation of "the law."
The legal provision for extension beyond Aug. 15 is contained in Clause (F), which requires that an extension be requested "no later than 1 August 2005" by the president of the National Assembly certifying to the Presidential Council "that there is a need for additional time." At that time, the Council could have extended the deadline "for only six months," which, arguably, means no other period of extension is allowed. No such extension took place. -- Instead, an extension of seven days was granted at about 11:55 p.m. on Aug. 15, and then a further three-day extension was granted around 11:50 p.m. on Aug. 22.
The latest talk of "one more day" is also extra-legal. -- In any case, the "Law of Administration for the State of Iraq for the Transtional Period" is a neo-Orwellian instrument of imperialism imposed upon the people of Iraq by force through an invasion the flouted international law and the will of the United Nations -- and global public opinion as well (the coordinated antiwar demonstrations of Feb. 15, 2002, were of historic dimensions).
The neo-Orwellian character of the "Law of Administration" is seen most clearly in its preamble, where we read: "The people of Iraq, striving to reclaim their freedom, which was usurped by the previous tyrannical regime, rejecting violence and coercion in all their forms, and particularly when used as instruments of governance, have determined that they shall hereafter remain a free people governed under the rule of law. These people, affirming today their respect for international law, especially having been amongst the founders of the United Nations, working to reclaim their legitimate place among nations, have endeavored at the same time to preserve the unity of their homeland in a spirit of fraternity and solidarity in order to draw the features of the future new Iraq, and to establish the mechanisms aiming, amongst other aims, to erase the effects of racist and sectarian policies and practices. This Law is now established to govern the affairs of Iraq during the transitional period until a duly elected government, operating under a permanent and legitimate constitution achieving full democracy, shall come into being."
Every sentence of this preamble was false when it was written, and is false today....
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