A while back Tom posted a link to the draft, and I took a belated closer look at it. It is indeed seriously flawed, and nothing reveals the domestic public relations agenda of the Bush Administration better than the fact that they're forcing the Iraqis to proceed despite the disastrous timebombs ticking away in that document. This process is bad for Iraq, and I don't think it's going to pay off for Bush in PR terms either, at least in the long run. He'll get a poll spike simply from adoption of the Constitution; but over the long term there's a significant chance that the Iraqi government will collapse due to its structural flaws, and it'll be hard for the Right spin responsibility away from Bush.

First we bomb 'em, then we occupy 'em, then we turn a blind eye to looting and let the infrastructure collaps; and now we're sticking 'em with a government destined to fail. Is there any way in which we're not screwing over the Iraqis?