From the AP:
Iraqi leaders reached a breakthrough deal on last minute changes in the constitution Tuesday, and at least one Sunni Arab party said it would reverse its rejection of the document and urge its supporters to approve it in next weekend’s referendum.
The deal boosts the chances for a constitution that Shiite and Kurdish leaders support and the United States has been eager to see approved in Saturday’s vote to avert months more of political turmoil, delaying plans to start a withdrawal of U.S. forces.
U.S. officials have pushed the three days of negotiations between Shiite and Kurdish leaders in the government and Sunni Arab officials, that concluded with marathon talks at the house of President Jalal Talabani late Tuesday.
The sides agreed to a measure stating that if the draft constitution is passed, the next parliament will be able to consider amendments to it that would then be put to a new referendum next year, Shiite and Sunni officials said.
A top Sunni negotiator, Ayad al-Samarraie of the Iraqi Islamic Party, said that if the current parliament approves the measure, “we will stop the campaign rejecting the constitution and we will call on Sunni Arabs to vote yes.”
That sound you just heard was Michael Moore coughing up a half dozen of caramel-pecan scones.
I BLAME BUSH
Me? I question the timing.
BECAUSE OF THE EMERGING DEMOCRACY!!!
If ONLY Bush had signed the Kyoto treaty!
The thing that strikes me most about Moore, the left and for that matter, most of the MSM is the contempt they all hold for democracy, and for those who are willing to die to preserve it. Yet they are progressives, it is a bizarro world.
Another sentence or two for George W. Bush in the text books of the future, mayhaps?
I really hope someone is keeping a big fat file full of hysterical, defeatist quotes from the left on how big a disaster the war in Iraq is so we can force feed it to them when the time comes.
The left has positioned themselves to become as relevant to history as the American Nazi party. Anyone remember any of their speeches of 1936, or their predictions about the future of humanity?
Naa, I thought not.
“Progressives” will never admit what they’re interested in “progressing” towards. It ain’t democracy, BTW.
I don’t know about you, but I’m keeping a list of such quotes from John Derbyshire. He’s such a bloody pessimist about the prospects for democracy globally, for a conservative pundit.
BECAUSE OF THE TIMING!!!
Hard to find this story buried amongst all the “insurgent suicide bomb blast” stories. I assume it will probably be a third page feature anyway…..
Todd,
Get back to work.
Todd’s Boss
Iraqis Reach Deal?
BECAUSE OF THE WORLD POKER TOUR!!
My lefty friend “guaranteed” rejection of the constitution and an ensuing civil war. While this turn of events will be disappointing to him, he’ll dismiss its approval as being Iraqis’ timid concession to the American puppet-master’s bullying and psychological warfare.
So you’re saying that lefty guarantees come with more strings attached than the Iraqi government?
So he switched to scones! That explains this.