Unifying force - or just a peace treaty?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldbriefing/story/0,15205,1592033,00.html
Simon Tisdall
Friday October 14, 2005
The Guardian
Opinion is divided in Iraq and beyond on whether its new constitution,
to be voted on tomorrow, will help to hold the country together - or
accelerate its disintegration into three separate, mutually
antagonistic Shia, Sunni and Kurdish statelets.
But what is clear is that the document that emerged from tense, and
often bad-tempered, US-directed negotiations between Iraq's main
communities is very different from the blueprint for a "democratic,
federal, pluralistic and united Iraq" originally envisaged by the Bush
administration.
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