Word: constitutionalize
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On Saturday, Iraqis will vote on a proposed constitution. If it passes, as expected, Bush could highlight that development as an indication that Iraq is headed toward democracy. And while the Bush team took strong criticism for not being adequately prepared for a hurricane and flooding in New Orleans that...
The Bush Administration would probably hail this kind of exchange as a sign that some of Iraq's Sunnis--who make up 20% of the population but the bulk of the anti-U.S. insurgency--are willing to participate in a political process they have until now largely rejected. But...
Imagine, then, watching what came next, as she was declared a mediocrity, a crony, "the least qualified choice since Caligula named his horse to the Senate." There was such venom in the attacks that you had to remind yourself that unlike in past court dramas--the slaying of Robert Bork...
And whom does he pick? The right, at least the conservative intellectual right, didn't care about her heart as much as her other muscles, her constitutional brilliance, her persuasive powers, her ability to walk into all that marble and make some history. It had its sacred short list of...
"Now that we have toppled Saddam, helped form a new government and overseen the writing of a constitution, it's time to get out of Iraq."