Sunni Side Up

Sunni leadership pulls back from boycott of Iraq poll although in true Sunni fashion they are telling their fellow Sunnis to JUST SAY NO to the constitution. No surprise there. Maybe when experts talk about Iraqis not being able to handle democracy they are talking about the Sunnis. Remember how they blew it last election by boycotting the referendum?

Well, they are spending their time in the run-up to this election having meetings, blowing up their fellow Iraqis and complaining because the constitution doesn't reflect their wishes.

Hey Mary Sunni-shine that's what happens when you snooze. You lose, doll.
In a nutshell - here are their three big gripes: Federalism, De-Baathification and Oil Revenue sharing. All stuff that you think could be worked out by way of legislative sessions. Really.

But not for those wacky Sunnis. Oh no. The article goes on to say:

For their part, Sunni-led insurgents have vowed to wreck the referendum, launching a fresh wave of attacks that have killed more than 305 people in the past two weeks.

Why, oh why does the MSM continue to refer to these murderers as insurgents? It's disgusting.

Almost as disgusting as those Arab League chumps sitting on the sidelines, rubbing their hands with glee and cheering them on.

The meeting came as the head of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, sent a delegation to Iraq, warning that the situation was now so tense that 'civil war could erupt at any moment'.

Feh.
Funny thing though. Those fellers over at the Arab League seem to be viewed with some suspicion in Iraq these days. Arab League Team in Baghdad Attacked

Could this less than cordial welcome have something to do with another instance of the Arab League sitting on the Iraqi sidelines but this time they were sitting on their hands not rubbing them with glee? Like when Saddam was in power and the Kurds and Shiite were getting killed and tortured? Could be.

But the league may not be entirely welcome in a new Iraq where a Shiite-Kurdish majority is embittered by the predominantly Sunni pan-Arab group's silence over Saddam Hussein's crimes against the two communities and its indifference to groups that opposed his regime from exile.

Democracy! Whisky! Sexy!