Yahoo: Rushed constitution points Iraq to civil war

[DemsUnited]

BAGHDAD (AFP) - The rushed drafting of
Iraq's new constitution has deepened sectarian rifts and is likely to fuel the Sunni-led insurgency and hasten the country's violent break up, a leading think-tank said.

"Instead of healing the growing divisions between Iraq's three principal communities -- Shiites, Kurds and Sunni Arabs -- a rushed constitutional process has deepened rifts and hardened feelings," the International Crisis Group (ICG) said in a report.

Iraq "appears to be heading toward de facto partition and full-scale civil war" said the report, unless Washington makes "a determined effort to broker a true compromise between Shiites, Kurds and Sunni Arabs."

Iraqis are due to vote on October 15 on the draft charter that emerged earlier this month after weeks of haggling between the different parties, although Sunni Arab leaders have already expressed unhappiness with the document.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050926/wl_mideast_afp/iraqpolitics

[WritingIsMyReligion]

1. Wow, you think so, Yahoo?

:sarcasm:

[AllegroRondo]

2. We learned NOTHING from Viet Nam

never get in the middle of a civil war.

[ClintonTyree]

3. WE did........

unfortunately the neo-cons didn't. Yeah, America, let's all vote Republican, they're better at foreign and domestic policy. :eyes: :puke: :eyes: