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Iraqi prince awaits democratic crowning by his people
Khaleej Times, United Arab Emirates
Dec 4, 2004
“We will win more that half the seats if fair elections are held,” says Sherif Ali bin Hussein, a 48-year-old former banker with a confident smile who spent most of his life in London until Saddam Hussein was toppled last year.
How to Build a Democratic Iraq
By
Adeed I. Dawisha and Karen Dawisha
From Foreign Affairs, May/June 2003
Summary: What follows the war in Iraq will be at least as important as the war itself. Nurturing democracy there after Saddam won't be easy. But it may not be impossible either. Iraq has several assets doing for it, including an educated middle class and a history of political pluralism under an earlier monarchy.
The
Iraqis could do worse than return to being a constitutional monarchy.
By
David Flint
Posted
Tuesday, December 16, 2003
There
is no time to be lost in restoring the Iraqi state. As the pieces are already
there, why waste so many long and difficult months in unprofitable debate,
when a viable Constitution already exists?
Cousin Of Last Iraqi King Says Monarchy Would Provide Stability
Valentinas Mite, (RFE/RL) Dec,1 2003
"If choosing people on the basis of their religion or race is so fantastic, then it should be applied in the United States. But, of course, it isn't. So why should it be applied in Iraq?"
Why
Constitutional Monarchy Makes Sense In Iraq
Shalan
Kadri, Capitol Grilling - Nov 23, 2003
A
monarch preserves the symbolic past and is an important symbol to all various
groups in an arena where they cannot threaten democracy.
More
Iraqis want US troops to stay, survey shows
AlertNet-Reuters - Nov 20, 2003
More Iraqis favoured a monarchy along Islamic lines. 53.3% of respondents favoured a monarchy compared with only 20% in an earlier study.
In the sheiks' hands
Paul McGeough, Sydney Morning Herald, Nov 9, 2003
The tribal leaders of Iraq are pivotal in ending the
violence against US forces and securing the nation's peace. But the Americans do not understand their power.
"Tribalism is in our culture; even the urban populations adhere to its customs - hospitality and generosity, honour and honesty." - Sharif Ali Bin-al-Husayn
King
and Country: The Hashemite solution for Iraq
Bernard
Lewis and R. James Woolsey
The
Wall Street Journal Editorial Page 10/29/2003
The
king should be a Hashemite prince with political experience and no political
obligations or commitments. In view of the nation's Shiite majority, the
prime minister should be a modern Shiite with a record of opposition to
tyranny and oppression. Such leaders would be well-suited to begin the
process that would in time lead to genuinely free and fair elections, sound
amendments to the 1925 Iraqi Constitution, and the election of a truly
representative governing body.
A
Time for Kings?
David Pryce-Jones
National Review, September
2, 2002
Restoration
of a Hashemite to the throne of Iraq has its logic at a time when rulers
and boundaries are in question.
Constitutional Engineering and American Foreign Policy: The Future of Iraq
Don Rich and Scott Fitzgerald
The Council of Emerging National Security Affairs CENSA., May 2, 2003
An Iraq that is a constitutional monarchy with a presidential-parliamentary type of political regime and a legislature that is selected
on the basis outlined offers the best hope for a stable democratic Iraq.
Iraq
needs a constitutional monarchy
Gailan M. Ramiz
The International Herald
Tribune, May 7, 2003
The
restoration of the monarchy is neither a moral choice nor a philosophical
question but a political necessity, based on pragmatic realities of the
situation in Iraq.
Restoring
Constitutional Monarchy In Iraq
Najdat Fathi Safwat
Al-Hayat, June 17, 2003
Events
in Iraq following the ouster of the monarchy have demonstrated that the
constitutional monarchy was the best alternative and that the choice of
the Hashemite king was the wise decision to make.
Al-Sharif
Ali meets with Syrian Foreign Minister
ArabicNews.com
10/28/2003
Al-Sharif
Ali: Iraqi resistance prolongs occupation
ArabicNews.com
10/23/2003
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