Iraqi compromise fuels angry debate

The deadlock between competing communal and political forces in Iraq's new National Assembly has helped fuel a fierce debate about the country's new system of government.

Some onlookers charged the US with imposing a "neo-colonial" model, through which it seeks to continue to exert control.

But the defenders of the new democratic apparatus say it is the only way to ensure consensus and compromise between political groups which history has divided.

At the root of the debate is Iraq's Transitional Administrative Law (TAL), the so-called "interim constitution" hammered out by selected Iraqi leaders under the eye of the occupying powers in Iraq more than a year ago.


(But but but how will the BFEE get its oily oil if the country rules itself??)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4359559.stm