Mark Phillips: The American Question
11/26/03: Democracy lessons.
Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani has
just
taught the United States government
an introductory lesson in the meaning of
democracy.
"The unraveling of the Bush administration's script for political transition in Iraq began with a fatwa.
The religious edict, handed down in June by Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, Iraq's most influential
Shiite Muslim cleric, called for general elections to select the drafters of a new constitution.
He dismissed U.S. plans to appoint the authors as 'fundamentally unacceptable.'"
(Washington Post,
11/26/03.)
How ironic that in Iraq, religious leaders support the people's right of representation, while
the leadership of the army which "liberated" them does not.
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