AFB: "Bush DOWNPLAYS Iraqi rifts on constitution"

[Bluebear]

Does a headline exist anymore where Bush is not downplaying something or the other?


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US President George W. Bush downplayed opposition to Iraq's draft constitution from the country's Sunni Arab minority, but a senior US diplomat said the rift could spell trouble.

Days after making a personal appeal to Iraq's majority Shiites for more concessions, Bush urged Sunnis to stick with the political process even as he predicted rising violence ahead of an October 15 constitutional referendum.

"The enemies of freedom, the terrorists will become more desperate, more despicable and more vicious," he said, adding that violence will "increase in the coming months because the enemy knows that its greatest defeat lies in the expression of free people, and freely enacted laws, and at the ballot box."

Negotiators agreed to 11th-hour changes to the text in an effort to win endorsement from the alienated Sunni Arab former elite, whose community has driven the anti-US insurgency, but failed to bring the Sunnis on board.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050828/pl_afp/iraqconstitutionus&printer=1

[wake.up.america]

1. Well, that is to be expected. Shows how concerned he is not...

about the public welfare, rather how he can maintain what little support he has and possibly regaining lost support.

I can't support this at all.

[wli]

2. Bushler is more desperate, more despicable, and more vicious now

All we're really waiting for is 9/11 v2.0.