Do you know that when Bremer's government started removing statues from Baghdad they also removed the statue of the greatest Arab poet Abu At-Tayyib Al-Mutanabbi? Today, I saw an interview I taped on AlJazeera with Ghassan Salamah about his experience in Iraq with the UN--too bad he is part of Hariri Inc in Paris. He said that Paul Bremer had more powers than Saddam, and said that not only was Sistani behind the elections, but that he was the one who insisted that the Iraqi constitution should be written by elected Iraqi representatives. So this man who left his house only once in 6 years was more democratic that the "leader of the free world"--and you know that I am a bitter critic of Sistani, and think that he provided a lousy leadership for the country, and has by his actions and statements increased the Sunni-Shi`ite rift in the country. Salamah also said that Bremer had with him several copies of US-made versions of the Iraqi constitution: that a Washington-DC law firm was hired to write the Iraqi constitution, until Sistani altered those plans.