1.0 link 6221 <![CDATA[This Just In: the Real U.S. Iraq Agenda]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-hayden/this-just-in-the-real-us-_b_6221.html The search for the "noble purpose" in Iraq is more elusive than the search for weapons of mass destruction. But the logic of U.S. policy is being clarified in the present constitutional talks.

Let's summarize the situation at the moment:

1. The new U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, has backed language "that would have given clerics sole authority in settling marriage and family disputes." {ny times, Aug. 21, 05]

2. Language in the current draft reserving 25 percent of the Assembly's...

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