AP Grudgingly Notes Iraq Constitution Approval
Charles Johnson
Tue Oct 25, 2005 at 8:08 am PDT • Views: 294
The Iraqi constitution has been adopted, and naturally the Associated Press fills three quarters of their openly negative article with reports of bombings and violent deaths. (Hat tip: Steven Den Beste.)
Iraq’s constitution was adopted by a majority in a fair vote during the country’s Oct. 15 referendum, as Sunni Arab opponents failed to muster enough support to defeat it, election officials said Tuesday. A prominent Sunni politician called the balloting “a farce.”
The U.S. military also announced the deaths of two Marines in fighting with insurgents last week in Baghdad, bringing the number of American service members killed in the war to 1,999.
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