[Peace-discuss] Word

[C. G. Estabrook]

[From an excellent op-ed by Dilip Hiro in the NYT today.  (Yes, they just
occasionally publish good stuff.)  --CGE]


So why is the United States so set against elections [in Iraq]? The most
concise answer was provided by Noah Feldman, a New York University law
professor who was the Coalition Provisional Authority's constitutional law
adviser. "If you move too fast," he told this newspaper, "the wrong people
could get elected" ... [But without an election in Iraq] we will be left
with a troubling contradiction: President Bush insisting that he has
liberated 25 million Iraqis from tyranny, while at the same time denying
them the right to self-determination.

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