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The draft Iraqi constitution is going to a referendum on October 15.(The Week ...)(Brief Article)
The draft Iraqi constitution is going to a referendum on October 15. Given the circumstances, it is a remarkably fair and thoughtful document, recognizing the role of Islam in Iraq but not instituting a theocracy; creating a federal system that acknowledges the ethnic and religious divides in the country without pulling it apart; distributing revenue from already-discovered oil fields nationwide by population rather than preserving it for the Shiite and Kurdish areas that harbor these fields. The Sunnis, who benefited from a centralized state under Saddam, are balking because they worry that the federalism provisions go too ...
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