The Return Of The Sunnis

[NATO AIR]

postive developments out of Iraq that matter in a big way for the elections in October

http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/27616.htm

September 1, 2005 -- WHILE all attention has been focused on the proposed draft of the new Iraqi Constitution, a more important development in the newly liberated country may have gone unnoticed: the acceptance by virtually all components of this diverse society of the democratic framework within which the constitution was drafted.

It started last April, when the Iraq Islamic Party, the largest political grouping of the Arab Sunni minority, abandoned its policy of boycotting the political process and agreed to join talks on the drafting of the constitution.

The party's decision brought a murderous response from the largely non-Iraqi terror groups led by Abu-Mussab al-Zarqawi and other pseudo-religious gangsters. Yet even when the Zarqawi gang murdered a deputy leader of the party and two other Sunni representatives to the constitutional talks, no prominent Arab Sunni leader was prepared to revert to the policy of boycotting the political process. Within weeks, every one of the Sunni political groups had joined the process.

The Shiite and Kurdish parties that together hold some 80 percent of the seats in the National Assembly (parliament), welcomed the Sunni representatives — even the rule, set by them, that only elected parliamentarians should write the draft.

Over the past months, the Arab Sunnis have realized that the democratic process can offer them what no amount of terrorism can: a share in shaping the future of Iraq. By joining the political process, they have served not only their own sectarian interests but the broader interests of the Iraqi people as a whole.

The most immediate effect of the "Sunni switch" can be seen in the long lines of people registering to vote in Arab Sunni-majority provinces. By last weekend in Samarra and Ba'aqubah, for example, twice as had registered as took part in January's election.
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[Psychoblues]

The Sunni's are, after all, Iragi's as well. We purport a Democracy there that represents all the peoples there. Are you asking any American to decide the fate of the Sunni population?

Psychoblues