Leaders in Iraq (news - web sites )'s Shiite community warned top US civilian administrator Paul Bremer against the risk of a crisis should he intervene in the drafting of the country's interim constitution.
...Shiite leaders reacted angrily to Bremer's threat to use his veto if the US-appointed interim Governing Council proposes a basic law that challenges the spirit of Western-style democracy.
"Islam is the source of law, and so it should be in a Muslim majority country," said Abdel Mahdi al-Karabali, who represents Shiite spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in the holy Shiite city of Karbala, 110 kilometres (70 miles) south of Baghdad.
"The Iraqi people only can veto the legislation and nobody has the right to interfere in our constitution," he told AFP Tuesday. article
They don't quite get it, do they? Freedom and democracy. They seem to think it means they are free to rule themselves they way they choose. Venezuela seems to have that same ridiculous idea. What is up with these people?
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
Tuesday, February 17, 2004
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