Iraqi Political Parties Hit Big Obstacles

[deadparrot]

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi political parties have run into obstacles in talks on a new national unity government, officials said Sunday, raising the possibility of a major delay that would be a setback to U.S. hopes for a significant reduction in troop levels this year.

In northeastern Iraq, search parties alerted by a shepherd found the wreckage of a German private plane that went missing in bad weather three days earlier with five Germans and one Iraqi on board. Iraqi and U.S. officials said there was no sign of survivors.

Gunmen ambushed a convoy of trucks carrying construction material to the U.S. military north of Baghdad on Sunday, killing four Iraqi drivers. A police general also died in a roadside bombing in northern Iraq.

U.S. officials hope a new government that includes representatives of all Iraq's religious and ethnic communities can help calm violence by luring the Sunni Arab minority away from the Sunni-dominated insurgency so that U.S. and other foreign troops can begin to head home.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060219/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Well, these things will happen in the best of democracies.

Remember in Philadelphia when the boys were hashing over the Constitution and the southern states said that slavery was the deal-breaker? It just goes to show that factions will form and will remain until one side is compelled/forced to accept the terms of the other side.

[LynnTheDem]

2. rotflmao!!!

Such biting sarcasm, shame on you!

:rofl: