Red alert.

There is one danger to Iraq that Ayatollah Sistani sure won't do anything about -- the imposition of Islamic law.

I am amazed to read (and amazed I missed) that the US established Iraqi governing council suddenly passed an "order decreeing abolition of Iraq's uniform civil codes in favor of religious law" meaning Sharia for moslems. Iraqi women protest. Western newspapers except for the lefty Financial times (not joking about lefty) ignore the news.

Al Qaeda attacks us so we go to war to replace a gender neutral civil code with Sharia ???

The decree does not have legal force because Bremer has not co signed.