US appears to back Islamic state in Iraq

After all that double double toil and trouble (or is it much ado about nothing?) in Iraq, the US seems to now be backing a Shia-led constitution allowing Islamic law as the basis for the new Iraqi government.

So, essentially, 1800 American soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqis have died to help turn Iraq into Iran. That's just swell.

Well, there goes another one of the 'reasons for the war'...

I guess that 'establishing secular democracy' can go the way of WMDs and 'played a part in 9/11'.

Read this from the Sunday Herald:
THE careful negotiations over the Iraqi constitution appeared last night to be leaning further towards making Islamic law the main source of law for the country rather than a source after US diplomats apparently gave way to the concerns of Iraqi officials.
We understand the Americans have sided with the Shi'ites. It's shocking. It doesn't fit American values. They have spent so much blood and money here, only to back the creation of an Islamist state. I can't believe that's what the Americans really want or what the American people want.
Sunni Arab negotiator Saleh al-Mutlak said a deal was struck which would mean parliament could pass no legislation that "contradicted Islamic principles".
Yesterday Shi'ite, Sunni and Kurdish negotiators, meeting with Iraqi president Jalal Talabani and US ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, all said there was accord on a bigger role for Islamic law than Iraq had before.
One secular Kurdish politician said: "We understand the Americans have sided with the Shi'ites. It's shocking. It doesn't fit American values. They have spent so much blood and money here, only to back the creation of an Islamist state. I can't believe that's what the Americans really want or what the American people want."