There are a lot of heavy weight issues yet to be determined. It will take an extraordinary amount of flexibility to reach a compromise on issues such as state religion’s role in law, the right for the Kurdish people to form their own country and woman’s rights.
My guess is that if the women retain the right to vote, they will be ok in the long run as politicians will court their vote. One week to tackle these issues is a challenge.
However I must point out (waves to Silat) that there are those out there in the world that will consider this whole affair in Iraq a failure if women don't get their rights restored to that of the previous murderous regrime. Mind you, we're talking a predominant Islamic culture in Iraq, where women typically don't carry such rights. Now, I'm not in agreement with that if thats the direction they choose, but we've given the Iraqi people the opportunity to decide these things without fear of reprisal from a tyrant. The leftists elites try to dig up anything to make it appear a failure, almost as though they do not want any success in Iraq in order to appear correct in their miscalculated presumptions.
