Iraq Constitution: Here's hoping they figure it out

imho, this is make or break time for the iraqis... the u.s. has certainly handed them a lemon but they're the ones who gotta figure out how to make lemonade... it's terribly sad... they're killing each other left and right, u.s. troops are dying right along with them, and they're trying to put thousands of years of ethnic and religious unrest to bed with a document that creates a u.s.-style democracy that is as foreign to their culture as wyoming buffalo...

The impression of growing crisis in Iraq was reinforced when a new front erupted in the violent rebellion, with Shia Muslims fighting each other with guns and rocket-propelled grenades.

Ibrahim al-Jaafari, the prime minister, made an emergency television appeal for peace and sent two police commando units to Najaf where the fighting had started.

Throughout the day in Baghdad, politicians bickered over how to proceed with the constitution without driving the country to civil war.

i don't know what's worse... hanging around, adding fuel to the insurgency and upping the u.s. (and iraqi) death count, gradually pulling out and prolonging the current agony or getting the hell out right now and hoping for the best... we know what george thinks... he says we're gonna stay there come hell or high water... after all, we want to build those permanent military bases... good lord... will somebody PLEASE wake me up...?

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