Shiite members walk out of talks on Iraq interim constitution

[Barrett808]

Baghdad, Iraq-AP -- Iraqi leaders trying <to draft an interim constitution> have hit hit a roadblock in their efforts to write an interim constitution by today's deadline.

A Governing Council member says several Shiite members have walked out of last-minute talks in a dispute over the role of Islamic law and women's rights. A Sunni Kurd on the 25-member council says a decision not to make Islamic law the basis for issues like divorce and inheritance issues prompted the walkout which halted the talks.

Missing the deadline by a few days won't set back U-S plans to transfer power on June 30th. But the walkout illustrates deep divisions running generally along the country's ethnic lines.

http://www.kfor.com/Global/story.asp?S=1675701

[rfkrocks]

1. our gift to Iraq

Civil war-have a nice day!

[AZCat]

2. This bugs me: what about war is civil?

Can't we find another term? I find the use of 'civil war' rather revolting. How about 'lots of dead people because one small man lied to the world'.
For me, that gets to the heart of it.

Edit: for grammar

[rfkrocks]

3. right on!!

"war what is it good for? absolutely nothing!"

[Teaser]

4. II'm sure you're aware of this,

but the term makes sense, in that it is an intra-society war, a war within the confines of one "cives" to use the latin term for nation-state-society.

It only sounds like an oxymoron.

[AZCat]

7. Yes, but I also believe that this application is incorrect.

While it may be an intra-society war, it was triggered by us. Shouldn't our term for describing the effect incorporate that? I don't hold with the theory that this is just a Middle-Eastern Balkan situation- where is the precedence for sectarian violence here that parallels what went on in Yugoslavia pre-Tito?

My post may have been snarky, but I feel that to call this a 'civil war' is incorrect.

[Mari333]

5. Civil war either way whether our kids are there or not

bring the troops home now
http://www.bringthemhomenow.com

[Zhade]

6. Interesting.

A Sunni Kurd on the 25-member council says a decision not to make Islamic law the basis for issues like divorce and inheritance issues prompted the walkout which halted the talks.

Wasn't the news abuzz recently about how the Sunni allegedly see the Shia as "weak on Islamic law" and "as bad as the Jews and Christians"? Yet here, at least according to this report, it seems that the Shia (possibly at the direction of al-Sistani?) want to cement Sharia as the basis for the Iraqi constitution, and the Sunnis don't. Am I reading this right?

Where's Ductape Fatwa? There's someone who can shed light on this!