Sorting through the news in my RSS reader came across an article about the proposed Iraqi constitution, which had the following headline: “Iraq Constitution Distributed Amid Attacks“.
It went on to state:
Residents of one of Baghdad’s most insurgent-hit neighborhoods received copies of Iraq’s draft constitution Thursday, though some refused to take it and some shopkeepers balked at passing it out, fearing reprisals by militants determined to wreck the crucial Oct. 15 referendum.
Insurgents continued their wave of violence with attacks in and around the capital, including the suicide bombing of a minibus, that killed at least 20 Iraqis and an American soldier.
Despite the bloodshed, Iraqis in the southern Baghdad neighborhood of Dora had their first look at the document they will vote on in nine days, though distribution of the U.N.-printed blue booklets — emblazoned “The constitution is in your hands” — got off to a slow start elsewhere.
A slow start? I’ll say. The article went on to tell of the fate of some copies of the constitution.
About two dozen boxes of the booklets were found thrown in a Dora garbage dump — apparently a sign of opposition or of shopkeepers fears of having the document around.
And it included a picture of the boxes containing constitutions, found at the edge of a garbage dump.
Caption: “An Iraqi man picks up copies the the new constitution draft from boxes on the edge of a Baghdad, Iraq, garbage dump, Thursday Oct. 6 2005. Iraqis will vote on Oct. 15, on the country’s constitution after the country’s Shiite-led parliament ended a bitter dispute with Sunni Arabs about how the referendum will be conducted.”
Kinda inspires hope, doesn’t it? I just found it kinda odd that the headline contrasted so much with the image that appeared along with it. Distributed? Sure, if dumping them in the garbage because you literally don’t want to be caught dead with them counts as distribution.
In a way, it’s kind of a metaphor for our whole misadventure in Iraq. Isn’t it?
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