The Rocky Mountain Telegram brings us what purports to be the full text of the proposed Iraqi constitution. If this is really it, I'm at a loss for words. I wasn't expecting Alexander Hamilton, but this is an embarrassment. It's not a Constitution at all, just a bunch of vague platitudes. It's like the mission statement of some shitty activist group. A complete travesty and a great shame on our country.
We killed and tortured people for this. For this.
Oh, god...
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It looks like that copy is more like somebody's shorthand notes of what the constitution says. Reuters' excerpts are light-years more eloquent. As for vague platitudes, that's probably what we'd get if we held a convention today too. The excerpts don't hold out much hope for an American-style federalism, but comparisons to another modern constitutional document show that this whole language rights and federalism thing is a big issue that deserves all the copy it's got.
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