Wirt Atmar wrote:
> If you're truly interested in a black & white answer to your questions, 
> you
> don't need to ask this group. Google is your friend, and in this case, so 
> is
> Wikipedia:
>
>     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_Iraqi_constitution

I like the start of the preamble:

In name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
"Verily we have honored the children of Adam" (Qur'an 17:70)
We the sons of Mesopotamia, land of the prophets, resting place of the holy 
imams, the leaders of civilization and the creators of the alphabet, the 
cradle of arithmetic: on our land, the first law put in place by mankind was 
written; in our nation, the most noble era of justice in the politics of 
nations was laid down; on our soil, the followers of the prophet and the 
saints prayed, the philosophers and the scientists theorized and the writers 
and poets created.
====

I wish we could claim something like "creators of the alphabet and the 
cradle of mathematics" in our constitution, but up here in the People's 
Republic of Canada all we could claim was, "creators of poutine and the 
cradle of hockey".

Bruce

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