From the Al-Jareeda (Arab Socialist Movement) newspaper in Baghdad, as found in MEMRI.
We, in Iraq, are in need of a constitution more than anything else except air and water. We need a constitution that will regulate our lives, direct our progress, goals, policies and relationships
Yes, Iraq needs a permanent constitution that will wipe off the dust of more than half a century, and the residues of more than three decades of despotic oppression. [An era] that did not give the people any role and did not allow them to design by themselves a democratic structure based on national pluralism
Therefore, it is important to publish the constitutional drafts developed by various political movements
in order to enhance the people's constitutional awareness
which will help them discuss their permanent national constitution. A constitution conceived in such an environment will certainly be one that will preserve Iraq's sovereignty and independence and will give everyone their due national rights as well as their responsibilities
Such a constitution will not give anyone authority beyond his rights, and will not give power to any group beyond what is due to it, so that it will not be able to impose its ideologies on othersâ€Å
Wonder if Kofi knows that the Iraqis are going to write a constitution without him? |