Great news coming out of Iraq:
Iraq’s voters have approved its constitution after Sunni Arab opponents failed to muster enough support to defeat it, officials said today.The results from the majority of Iraq’s 18 provinces came in yesterday, with two rejecting it by a crucial two-thirds majority. A two-thirds rejection from a third province would have seen it voted down.Nineveh – the final province to announce its results – voted against the constitution, but its 55% no vote fell short of the two-thirds margin that would have sunk the document.
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Iraqis say yes to constitution
If we had 78% of the American voting base agreeing on an issue it would be viewed as an overwhelming success. Hell, if something passed with 43% of the vote it would still be deemed successful. You are going to hear that 21% of the Iraq population’s voice wasn’t heard and because of that this constitution is illegitimate. And that’s a shame. In a democracy there will always be winners and losers. Just because you lost this time doesn’t mean sometime in the future the political wind might shift!
(Via SayAnythingBlog)
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