NEW CONSTITUTION: A FALSE HOPE

Bush's claim that we must stay in Iraq and finish the job (whatever that is) is pure malarkey. Even if Iraq succeeds in writing a new constitution, what reason is there for believing that it will bring an end to hostilities? Or that we will gain easy access to their oil? Instead of bringing peace, a new constitution, because it cannot satisfy the demands of all conflicting and hate-filled factions, will likely produce more hostility than it resolves. The drive for a republican form of government in Iraq is not coming from the Iraqis themselves; it is being imposed on them by the United States. We may think that because we have bigger guns and bigger rockets that we can ram a capitalist ridden form of government down the throats of Iraqis, but we cannot. They, as every other people on earth, can accept and live only with a form of government that they devise out of their own needs.