New Iraq, better than the old Iraq?

Juan Cole's blog 'Informed Comment', is one of the absolute best at presenting the real information of the Iraq occupation. His proscription for how to extract the US forces from the quagmire while also preventing all-out civil war was very thought provoking.

Further in I found this delightful detail;


Dexter Filkins of the NYT reveals some of the details about which the constitution drafting committee has been arguing. One is whether clerics will sit on the Supreme Court (they do in Afghanistan). Apparently one plan would give them 4 of 9 seats. You can only imagine what US law would look like if 4 of the Supreme Court seats were set aside for Cardinals and televangelists. We'd all have 12 kids and they would be taught "intelligent design" in state schools.