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August 13, 2005
Is Iraq's Constitution Writing Deadline a U.S. Political Issue?
Professor Juan Cole at Informed Comment says "a perceptive reader" wrote him "to say that the short deadline for the parliamentary acceptance of the constitution" in Iraq " means that most members of parliament probably won't have time to read or study it carefully before the vote, and there will certainly be no proper debate on it.
"Is it right to expect parliament to approve a constitution it has barely read, which is highly controversial, without time for study and debate?" Mr. Cole asked in an August 13, 2005 post.
"Isn't that making parliament a mere rubber stamp? The deadline is a U.S. political issue, not an imperative of Iraqi politics,": he noted.
The parliament will be a rubber stamp with a short or long deadline for approving the constitution.
Posted by Munir Umrani at August 13, 2005 03:22 PM
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