Mike,

>...The rules were that three provinces had to reject the constitution by a two thirds margin for it to fail. This was carefully based on ethnic percentages in all the provinces. Some are mostly Shiite, some (far fewer) are mostly Sunni, and some are mostly Kurds. Only a few are mixed, including the one that rejected the constitution by only 55-45. The whole vote was a sham.

Unbelievable conclusion, Mike. The whole vote was a sham, huh, although they specifically gerrymandered the rules to give the Sunnis am affirmative-action-style fighting chance to torpedo the entire thing. Unfortunately for those who led the opposition, enough Sunnis voted FOR the constitution to approve it.

Of course, they could have just patterned the system on our electoral college system, or even just made it a strict majority vote instead of leaning over backwards to make it easier for it to be voted down.

It's too bad that so many people think that all Sunnis were against this, when clearly many of them voted YES.