Don't Trade in Your Burka for Hot Pants Just Yet, Ladies

"I was wrong". Three words you won't hear from the Bush Administration, but three words that I use every time they are applicable. I predicted that the Iraq elections would bring a panel of American dupe puppets to power and that the new Constitution would be a facade of a document shipped in from Washington. I thought it would all be a way for the USA to plant itself in the Middle East with a bogus, fixed election.

Now I will eat a large plate of crow while scrubbing the blue leather dye off of my finger. Exit polls predict that the people of Iraq have overwhelmingly voted for Shiite extremist fundamentalists to draft their new constitution. They are demanding the new Constitution to be based from Islamic law and the Koran. Don't trade your Burka in for hot pants yet, ladies! The whole story has not been reported in the biased liberal American media, but can be read here.

Sheikh Ibrahim Ibrahimi is the right-hand man to a prominent Ayatollah and made public several statements yesterday:

"We advise the government not to take decisions which would shock Muslims, such as the conscription of Muslims and the publication of their photos with foreign instructors. We warn officials against a separation of the state and religion, because this is completely rejected by the ulema and marja and we will accept no compromise on this question. If they (the government) want the stability and security of the country, they must not touch the country's Islamic values and traditions".

In response, the Bush Administration has agreed to honor their wishes and let them establish an Iran-like Shiite religious empire. The troops will be pulled out to neighboring countries, then we can assume proof that if they are going to have a government like Iran, that's solid evidence that they have a nuclear program like Iran.

George Bush will show up on television and give them 48 hours to disarm. When they fail to produce something they don't have, we can shoot cruise missiles into the cities and then re-invade. The president can land on an aircraft carrier and proclaim "mission accomplished", we can spend several hundred billion more dollars and the right wing can puff out its chest at the overturning of a dictator like Sistani who will be found in a "spiderhole".

Then the Iraqi people will be allowed to vote in their own democracy. Maybe they'll get it right the next time. Or the next time. If not, we'll just keep re-invading until they do.