An agreement was reached that Islam is the religion of state, and that no law shall be enacted that contradicts the agreed-upon essential verities of Islam. Likewise, the inviolability of the highest [Shiite] religious authorities in the land is safeguarded, without any allusion to a detailed description.... A Higher Council will be formed to review new legislation to ensure it does not contravene the essential verities of the Islamic religion.
-- London-based Arabic newspaper al-Hayat
Sorry about that, girls. Quoting what Digby said, below the fold....
And what say you Hitchens, you useful fucking idiot? Americans just
"freed" the Iraqis so they could live under Islamic law. That's quite a
goddamned achievement. You must be so proud.
How about you
Condi? Are you proud of what you've done? You just "freed" 13 million
women into second class citizenship -- probably into hell. Tough luck
ladies. Don't worry, though, your granddaughters might get their rights
back in their lifetimes. You can't stop progress, you know.
And
what about you, George you misbegotten cretin. Is this what you were
talking about in all these windy speeches about freedom being the gift
of the almighty and all that other flatulent twaddle you peddle to the
silly rubes who confuse leadership with frat boy swagger? Did you free
the Iraqis so they could live under Ayatollahs?
Iraqi women's lives have already become demonstrably less free. This will codify it. And tough shit if you're gay or secular or different in any way. Some fucking freedom.
I
hope that everyone makes it their business to remind every Republican
asshole they know that it wasn't the liberals who turned Iraq into a
theocracy. This is happening on their watch, under their auspices. We
don't believe in theocracy. They do. They do not believe in freedom. We do.
(They do believe in two primary freedoms: The freedom of their cronies in or invested in the military-industrial complex to profiteer at the expense of everyone else, and the freedom to tell as many unaccountable lies about it as they wish.)