Bill Sykes' Newsletter
from America.
(September 2005)
An ex-Brit gives his views - (without
fear or favor) - of the American Scene
Iraq
fails to meet Bush’s unrealistic deadline for
the provision of a constitutional document:
 The so-called Interim Iraqi Parliament failed to come up with a Democratic
Constitutional document by Monday the 15th of August deadline forced upon by
them by the totally unrealistic demands of the Bush Administration, and requested
a weeks delay.
If a Constitution is not completed by next Monday the 22nd of August, and realistically
I cannot anticipate seeing a real constitution being created for many years to
come, if ever, then the Interim Iraqi Parliament will have to be dissolved and
a new election will have to be conducted.
Currently there are at least 50 disputed issues to be
resolved with some of the major ones being the future
role of Islam which would affect women’s rights,
the control and distribution of revenue from the Iraqi
oil reserves, (currently located in the northern Kurdish
territory and the southern Shiite territory), and Kurdish
demands for self-determination which implies the right
of the Kurds to break away from Iraq. Apparently the
Kurds want autonomy, the Shiites want a return to strict
Islamic religious law and the Sunnis want a share of
the oil revenue, so if this is to be the future Iraq
then it would initiate the creation of three separate
states - Kurd, Sunni, and Shiite, which eventually would
without a doubt lead to a civil war.
 This is a slap in the face and a grave embarrassment
to America’s Imperialist
aims for the people of the Middle East, and doubts have arisen and are being
expressed in Washington as to whether the timetable of events that was forced
upon the Iraqi people was realistic in the first place. The Bush Administration
have lost face and are now trying to downplay the failure of the Iraqi people
to come up with a constitution within the unrealistic time limits set by the
Bush administration, yet one would not recognise this failure if one listened
to the likes of Vice President Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
who appear to be completely out of touch with the reality and are still promoting
the administration’s success story stating that Democracy is slowly being
achieved in Iraq.
The way things are going, the unrealistic dream envisaged
by the Bush administration of a Democratic Iraq is falling by the way side,
and if the killing of mainly Shiite police and civilians by the Sunni insurgents
increases on a daily basis, as is expected when the Sunni insurgents obtain
and use more and more sophisticated weapon systems, the chances of an Iraqi
Constitution being agreed upon becomes less and less feasible.
We welcome feedback about any of the contents of these
newsletters. Please send all correspondence to bill_sykes@huddersfield1.co.uk
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