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Friday, August 26, 2005

Shites, Kurds reject Sunnis (and Bush)

So the Constitutional process is falling apart. Good thing Bush personally intervened and put the prestige of his office on the line to save it:

The decision to move forward was a heavy blow for the Bush administration, which had expended enormous energy and political capital to forge a constitution that included the Sunnis. On Thursday, in a last-ditch effort to get a deal, President Bush telephoned Abdul Aziz Hakim, a cleric and the leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, to press him to offer a more palatable compromise to the Sunnis.

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