U-S optimistic despite third blown Iraq charter deadline

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U-S optimistic despite third blown Iraq charter deadline

STATE DEPARTMENT Iraq's parliament has now blown three deadlines, but the Bush administration is expressing optimism that the Iraqis are still on track to approve a national constitution.

The speaker of Iraq's Parliament today announced a one-day extension in talks on the draft charter in a last attempt to win Sunni (SOO'-nee) Arab approval.

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack says it's certainly understandable if Iraqi leaders need more time to complete "a historic document that will lay a foundation for a new and free Iraq."

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1. It's like the singing on the Titanic

It'll all be fine.