Iraq Constitution may lead to legalized abortion? (24 yr old * appointee)

[AnnInLa]

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/editorial/11990717.htm

The coalition government relied heavily on a revolving door of diplomats and other personnel who would leave just as they had begun to develop local knowledge and ties, and on a large cadre of eager young neophytes whose brashness often gave offense in a very age- and status-conscious society. One young political appointee (a 24-year-old Ivy League graduate) argued that Iraq should not enshrine judicial review in its constitution because it might lead to the legalization of abortion. A much more senior Iraqi interlocutor (a widely experienced Iraqi-American lawyer) became so exasperated with the young man's audacity that he finally challenged him:



The dilemma struck me almost immediately after my arrival, when one of our colleagues stormed into the office after a late-night meeting of the Iraqi Governing Council, uttering: ``We have a problem. And no one wants to deal with it. The Governing Council is issuing orders and the ministers are starting to execute them.'' Several of us burst out laughing. We were fostering a transition to sovereignty and democracy. We had established the Iraqi Governing Council. But God forbid it should actually seek to start governing!



It was hubris -- and worse -- that led one retired general to dismiss the disastrous April 2003 murder of Abdul Majid al-Khoei (Iraq's most outspoken democratic Shiite cleric, and a man we had just brought back from London) with the disdainful quip, ``Oh, it's just them killing each other.'' It was hubris that led the United States to simply dismiss the insurgents as a bunch of bad losers and ``evildoers'' who would be quickly consigned to the dustbin of history. Thus President Bush defiantly invited them to ``bring it on.''





To achieve lasting peace in Iraq, America will have to make concessions, including an explicit commitment not to seek permanent military bases in Iraq. Perhaps no issue in the coming years will more clearly expose the real purpose of the Bush administration's postwar mission in Iraq: to build democracy or to obtain a new, regional military platform in the heart of the Arab world.


http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/editorial/11990717.htm

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Great. I never imagined going to Iraq to get a legal abortion as

Roe seems less guaranteed every day.