{"id":2296,"date":"2005-08-15T19:46:23","date_gmt":"2005-08-16T02:46:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-08-15T19:46:23","modified_gmt":"2005-08-16T02:46:23","slug":"iraqi-constitution-delay-illegal-under-tal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/15\/iraqi-constitution-delay-illegal-under-tal\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi constitution delay illegal under TAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News services are currently reporting:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<div class=\"textStoryTag\" style=\"padding-bottom: 10px;\">BREAKING NEWS<\/div>\n<div class=\"textMedBlack\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/8931395\/\">MSNBC News Services<\/a> <\/div>\n<div class=\"textTimestamp\">Updated: 3:39 p.m. ET Aug. 15, 2005<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\">BAGHDAD, Iraq &#8211; Several members of the committee drafting Iraq&#8217;s constitution said Monday they had agreed to seek a 10-day extension to the Aug. 15 deadline to try to complete negotiations over the highly contested charter.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2005\/08\/now-theyre-moving-goalpost-every.html\">According to Juan Cole, <\/a>posting a short time ago, this is illegal:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albawaba.com\/en\/news\/187664\">Every indication is that a final text of Iraq&#8217;s permanent constitution<\/a><br \/>\njust won&#8217;t be reported out of the drafting committee in time to have<br \/>\nparliament vote on it on Monday. Now Iraqi politicians are talking<br \/>\nabout having parliament amend the interim constitution to allow a delay<br \/>\nof say, two weeks. In fact, according to the Transitional<br \/>\nAdministrative Law, if the committee did not ask for an extension by<br \/>\nAugust 1 (which it was pressured not to do by the Bush administration);<br \/>\nand if the parliament did not approve the new constitution by August<br \/>\n15; then parliament should be dissolved.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>UPDATE:&nbsp; AP now reporting Iraqi parliament voted &quot;unanimously&quot; to <a href=\"http:\/\/cbs4boston.com\/news\/topstories_story_227154438.html\">delay constitution deadline by 7 days&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News services are currently reporting: BREAKING NEWS MSNBC News Services Updated: 3:39 p.m. ET Aug. 15, 2005 BAGHDAD, Iraq &#8211; Several members of the committee drafting Iraq&#8217;s constitution said Monday they had agreed to seek a 10-day extension to the Aug. 15 deadline to try to complete negotiations over the highly contested charter. According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2296"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}