>Perry,
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>>I'm asking you to look beyond the constitution. According to everything I've heard from sources other then Fox news, the constitution doesn't mean anything.
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>Watch and see the Sunnis overwhelmingly participate in the December elections to put as many of their representatives as possible into the Parliament -- a process, by the way, that is part of the same process that brought about the constitution. If the constitution doesn't mean anything, I guess there won't be an election in December and there won't be a freely-elected representative government put into place with overwhelming involvement of Sunni voters.
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>The defeat of the constitution would have scuttled that entire process and sent it back to the drawing boards. The fact that the elections will happen and a constitutionally prescribed parliament will be elected are evidence that the constitution does indeed mean something.
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>Gee, man... it's simple logic based on simple facts. Unless, of course, you have a more complicated agenda that involves trying to turn good news into bad for political purposes. :-)
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>>It's a precursor to a major civil war. Why should I hail an event that has such potentially dangerous ramifications?
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>There you go again. The only possible outcome of this is civil war, huh? Right. Watch the Sunni election participation in December and watch as they get into campaign mode over the next two months.

David;

Give the process a chance. Just check the body count on the 6 PM news for the next ten years and let us see what happens.

Tom