Bill Sykes' - In Retrospect
III.
(September 2006)
Bill Sykes
looks back in retrospect at material which has been published
in previous editions of "View from America",
in an attempt to determine whether the subject matter
written then is still applicable in today’s world.
These observations have been extracted from Bill Sykes
Newsletter "View from America"
September
2005 edition.
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), 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 Sunni 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 wayside, 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.
Note: To view the complete September 2005 edition of “View
from America” please click HERE.
Disclaimer:
Some of the information gathered for this newsletter
has been gleaned from American and International media
sources, (including the Internet), and as such is quoted
as accurately as possible. I try to obtain confirmation
on each subject from several outlets, so the text
is a mixture of composite news items and personal comments
and therefore the reader must make his/her own judgment
as to the reliability and degree of accuracy of the
subjects discussed.
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