October 25, 2005
COME NINEVAH:
Iraq Draft Constitution Adopted (CBS/AP, Oct. 25, 2005)
Iraq's landmark constitution was adopted by a majority of voters during the country's Oct. 15 referendum, election officials said Tuesday.Results released by the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq showed that Sunni Arabs, who had sharply opposed the draft document, failed to produce the two-thirds "no" vote they would have needed in at least three of Iraq's 18 provinces to defeat it.
The commission, which had been auditing the referendum results for 10 days, said at a news conference in Baghdad that Ninevah province, had produced a "no" vote of only 55 percent. Only two other mostly Sunni Arab provinces — Salahuddin and Anbar — had voted no by two-thirds or more.
The constitution, which many Kurds and majority Shiites strongly support, is considered another major step in the country's democratic transformation, clearing the way for the election of a new Iraqi parliament on Dec. 15. Such steps are considered important in any decision about the future withdrawal of U.S.-led forces from Iraq.
How'd the Left get themselves into a position where good news for democracy in Iraq is bad news for them? Posted by Orrin Judd at October 25, 2005 8:08 AM
When they lost their collective mind somewhere in the early 60's.
Posted by: tefta at October 25, 2005 8:37 AMIt's going to be Ninevah = Ohio = Florida = illegitimate Iraqi government = Bush is Hilter.
Posted by: Rick T. at October 25, 2005 9:07 AMThe left doesn't like democracy in America - why should they like it in Iraq?
Posted by: jim hamlen at October 25, 2005 9:32 AMSame Nineveh:
Jonah.3
[3] So Jonah arose and went to Nin'eveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nin'eveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey in breadth.
[4] Jonah began to go into the city, going a day's journey. And he cried, "Yet forty days, and Nin'eveh shall be overthrown!"
[5] And the people of Nin'eveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.
[6] Then tidings reached the king of Nin'eveh, and he arose from his throne, removed his robe, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
[7] And he made proclamation and published through Nin'eveh, "By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, or drink water,
[8] but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them cry mightily to God; yea, let every one turn from his evil way and from the violence which is in his hands.
[9] Who knows, God may yet repent and turn from his fierce anger, so that we perish not?"
[10] When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God repented of the evil which He had said He would do to them; and He did not do it.
when have they not been in that position ?