The constitution is not only a disaster for a lot of the people who share the secular democratic perspective, whether Sunni, Shiite or Kurdish. It's also leading to some version of a sharia state... Not necessarily a theocracy but certainly a state where there is a dominant role for Muslim clerics.
David Mack
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I wouldn't talk about a great triumph for democracy as a way to describe this.
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We wanted (the Sunnis) to mobilize politically, but we certainly didn't want them to mobilize politically against the constitution.
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Politics makes strange bedfellows. I can see most of the Sunnis voting against this (charter), plus the followers of Muqtada al-Sadr, plus moderate-minded, secular-minded Shia and even some Kurds.
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It may be his way of telling the generals to stop talking about drawing down the forces.
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Just imagine if a Shiite couple are seeking a divorce. She can get a divorce under the civil code and with difficulty get it under Shiite law, but no alimony or child custody [for children] above a certain age.... This is a recipe for real problems.
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I can tell you that he really stepped up to community responsibility at a time that Rochester really needed a publisher to not just be in Rochester but to be of Rochester.
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That's the unfortunate thing. I sent a kid to the hospital today, a 6-2 post player who gives us 21 points a night and a load of rebounds. That made a big difference tonight.
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Certainly the violence in Iraq has been much lower than it might have been, because there's been a fair deal of restraint among Shiite leaders. And that might end now - they may feel the need to really go after the Sunni Arabs as a diversion.
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