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Is it unreasonable to expect that our media might at some point actually report the entire text of the constitution the Iraqis are writing? Apparently so, given this AP story via the New York Times:

. . .
Article Seven

1. Any organization that follow a racist, terrorist, extremist, sectarian-cleaning ideology or circulates or justifies such beliefs is banned, especially Saddam's Baath Party in Iraq and its symbols under any name. And this should not be part of the political pluralism in Iraq.

2. The government is committed to fighting terrorism in all its forms, and works to protect Iraqi soil from being a center or passage for terrorist activities.

CHAPTER TWO

Article 35

-- a. Human freedom and dignity are guaranteed.
. . .

Either there are no numbers in Arabic for the range from 8 to 34, or there's been a bit of editing done. Aren't you curious as to what might be in those 27 missing Articles? I for one am very interested in what our blood and treasure have purchased for Iraq.

(Before you complain--yes, I excerpted their excerpt. My point is why are we only being given selected passages from the Iraqi draft constitution?)