Dean's World

Welcome to the Carnival of the Liberated, a sampler of some of the best posts from Iraqi and Afghani bloggers. This week we have more thoughts on the new Iraqi constitution, the Badr Regiment, the Afghan parliamentary elections, and much, much more.

Afghan Warrior brings us up-to-date on the upcoming Afghan parliamentary elections.

Faiza of A Family in Baghdad has a long, rambling multi-segment post musing on politics, economics, the evils of capitalism, and terrorism:

There are hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, or perhaps hundreds of thousands of people around the world who oppose capitalism just like they oppose terrorism, but they support justice, and noble principals…

A Glimpse of Iraq has a few Iraqi jokes for us. I see that ethnic humor is universal—only the ethnicity changes.

An Average Iraqi writes about the Badr Regiment.

Sunshine of Days of My Life posts about helping the poor.

Mama of Emotions… wonders.

Hammorabi writes about the complications of writing a constitution for a country that is ethnically and religiously diverse. His main point: the differences in interests among the Kurds, Shi'a Arabs, and Sunni Arabs spring from the differences in their experiences.

Ibn Al-Rafidain comments on circumcision, sodomy, and the death penalty.

Iraq the Model reflects on the Iraqi constitution:

Iraqis as a people are facing a very difficult choice this time; it's not like the January elections when they had 111 slates from all colors of the political spectrum to choose from but now they're left to choose between a constitution they don't agree with all its contents and a possible dangerous political vacuum in case they reject the constitution.

IraqPundit writes about the prospect of civil war in Iraq (and how some seem to be pushing it on Iraq):

While civil war is a serious possibility, Iraq is not there yet. In order to have a war like Lebanon's, the population must hate each other.

Ferid of Iraq4ever has pictures of a pro-Saddam, pro-Ba'athist demonstration. I wonder how this will be viewed if there's a ban on the Ba'athist party in the final version of the constitution.

Raed Jarrar of Raed in the Middle still believes that Iraq can't have any freedom or draft a legitimate constitution until after a complete American withdrawal from the country.

neurotic iraqi wife sticks her head up long enough to mention her one year blogging anniversary and bring us up-to-date on her life in the Green Zone. You might want to give her a good word.

Dave Schuler posts regularly to his own weblog, The Glittering Eye. The Carnival was originally conceived by Ryan Boots.