The Iraqi Constitution, two views

Bush's national security adviser, Steve Hadley has a commentary in The Washington Post today, Iraq's Democratic Determination where he discusses the great promise of the new Iraqi constitution, that was written by Iraqis for Iraqis. In the Asia Times anti war anti Bush administration Pepe Escobar writes that the constitution is all about How to constitute a civil war. Escobar claims the constitution was heavily influenced by the Americans,

The new supervisor is Zalmay Khalilzad, the White House's former Afghan and current ambassador in Baghdad. During the redaction of the constitution, Khalilzad was described by Reuters as a "ubiquitous presence". Just in case, Khalilzad and his team of American Embassy officials even volunteered their own constitution text to the Iraqis.

At a minimum, according to the Washington Post, they "helped type up the draft and translate changes from English to Arabic". Khalilzad constantly tampered with the redaction. Then he used any trick in the "divide and rule" notebook to try to mollify the Shi'ite parties and "include" Sunnis in a kind of reconciled, centralized Iraq - to no avail. For this purpose, he used the services of the former US intelligence asset and former interim prime minister (for six months), Iyad Allawi.

and will result in a civil war regardless of whether it is approved or defeated.