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August 15, 2005
The Constitutional Disintegration of Iraqi
Ehsan Ahrari at Asia Times Online contends that, "The new Iraqi constitution risks beginning an era of the virtual carving up of Iraq. The Kurds and the Shi'ites are operating on the basis of a zero-sum game, whereby any one group's gains would approximately equal another group's losses," he wrote in an August 14, 2005 article, adding: The Kurds are determined to get the autonomous oil-rich northern section. Not to be outmaneuvered by the Kurds, the Shi'ites want an autonomous southern portion. That would leave the Sunnis with the impoverished central section. They are watching, in horror, a process that might be the beginning of the end of a unified Iraq that was created between 1921 and 1932.
Mr. Ahrari said, "With all its intentions of democratizing and stabilizing the "new Iraq", the Bush administration may be presiding over the process of the disintegration of Iraq." Here's more of Mr. Ahrari's analysis.
Posted by Munir Umrani at August 15, 2005 09:48 PM
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