{"id":53,"date":"2005-08-15T13:50:13","date_gmt":"2005-08-15T21:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debt-on.com\/wordpress\/2005\/08\/15\/one-hour-until-iraqi-constitution-deadline\/"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"one-hour-until-iraqi-constitution-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debt-on.com\/wordpress\/2005\/08\/15\/one-hour-until-iraqi-constitution-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;One Hour Until Iraqi Constitution Deadline&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That was the headline on Fox News about twenty minutes ago.  Apparently the Iraqi Parlaiment has been holed up for weeks trying to approve a constitution.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/middle_east\/4733851.stm\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>: Its 71 members met late into the night on Sunday to consider their progress.<\/p>\n<p>The US and Britain fear that a delay might play in the hands of insurgent groups, which have intensified their attacks.<\/p>\n<p>US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld flew to Baghdad last week to insist that the panel meet the original 15 August deadline.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So there they are, burning the midnight oil, cramming through this constitution like its some kind of college term paper.  Our eager pupils of democracy, who&#8217;ll turn in their frantically prepared project at the last minute and wait nervously for their grade.<\/p>\n<p>It sure feels good to be the professor, passing down grades in democratic structure, imposing deadlines and making sure our students stick to them.  The thing is, when I stayed up all night on a term paper, I rarely got more than a B-minus on it.  Is that really any way to write a constitution?<\/p>\n<p><b>Edit:<\/b> Oooh.. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/08\/16\/international\/middleeast\/16iraq.html?hp&#038;ex=1124164800&#038;en=19191aa81a883b83&#038;ei=5094&#038;partner=homepage\" target=\"_blank\">and they didn&#8217;t make it.<\/a>  And nobody gave them the extension.  That&#8217;s gonna hurt their GPA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That was the headline on Fox News about twenty minutes ago. Apparently the Iraqi Parlaiment has been holed up for weeks trying to approve a constitution. BBC: Its 71 members met late into the night on Sunday to consider their progress. The US and Britain fear that a delay might play in the hands of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debt-on.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debt-on.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debt-on.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debt-on.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debt-on.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/debt-on.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debt-on.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debt-on.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debt-on.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}