Next stop on the Civil War Express...

The Sunnis were against the Iraqi constitution drafted in September because it divided most of the national power into regional and tribal sects. The Sunnis, small in number and occupying the central, oil-poor section of the country, would be left with little power under this structure.

So a "compromise" was brokered, whereby the constitution could be revisited and possibly amended to give more power to a centralized government once the newly-elected National Assembly was seated this year. All the Sunnis had to do was drop their opposition to the constitution, which a handful of them naively did.

Well, that plan, predictably, is on its way out the window. The leader of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq has just unilaterally declared that no amendments to the constitution will be allowed.

The Sunnis will soon have little stake in the new Iraq. And when a people have little stake in their own land, they often lash out against its government...with violence.

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