perhaps it is only a "negotiating posture" but taking Sunni leaders at their word makes things in Iraq look worse and worse ... the US has been pushing a "Federalism" approach that would leave the Shia and Kurds with the oil and Sunnis with "the shaft" ... it sounds similar to the deal the US brokered in Sudan that's led to poverty, starvation and hundreds of thousands of deaths in Darfur ... barring a miracle, the Sunnis are going to tell the US to take a hike and the insurgency will grow ...
what exactly are we fighting for in Iraq? is our goal to impose an unconscionable "solution" on the Sunnis? the Sunni "insurgency" is fighting for a fair deal; why does the US oppose that?
source:
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/BAK947253.htm"The constitution issue is dead until the referendum," said Sunni negotiator Hussein al-Falluji on Thursday. "We will vote 'No' and we will not accept the American policy of aggression to get what they want. There is no way we will support it."
The draft constitution, endorsed by Shi'ite and Kurdish leaders, is central to a U.S. and Iraqi government strategy of drawing Sunnis into politics to defuse a Sunni insurgency and keep the country from sliding towards sectarian civil war. <skip>
While U.S. and Iraqi officials would declare a "Yes" result as a victory for democracy, the constitution could further isolate moderate Sunnis and strengthen the resolve of insurgents who stepped up violence after January elections. <skip>
The International Crisis Group think-tank said this week the constitution was likely to fuel rather than tame the insurgency.
It urged the United States to broker a political deal before Oct. 15 that would ease Sunni anxieties over the charter and warned the country could be sliding toward full-scale civil war.
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