Politics makes strange bedfellows. I can see most of the Sunnis voting against this (charter), plus the followers of Muqtada al-Sadr, plus moderate-minded, secular-minded Shia and even some Kurds. -David Mack

 

Politics makes strange bedfellows. I can see most of the Sunnis voting against this (charter), plus the followers of Muqtada al-Sadr, plus moderate-minded, secular-minded Shia and even some Kurds.


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I wouldn't talk about a great triumph for democracy as a way to describe this.

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Certainly the violence in Iraq has been much lower than it might have been, because there's been a fair deal of restraint among Shiite leaders. And that might end now - they may feel the need to really go after the Sunni Arabs as a diversion.

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It may be his way of telling the generals to stop talking about drawing down the forces.

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We wanted (the Sunnis) to mobilize politically, but we certainly didn't want them to mobilize politically against the constitution.

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Just imagine if a Shiite couple are seeking a divorce. She can get a divorce under the civil code and with difficulty get it under Shiite law, but no alimony or child custody [for children] above a certain age. . . . This is a recipe for real problems. -David Mack
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I can tell you that he really stepped up to community responsibility at a time that Rochester really needed a publisher to not just be in Rochester but to be of Rochester.

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