Iraq Sunni delegates reject "American" constitution

reutersfoundation: A Sunni Arab delegate on the committee drafting Iraq's constitution said all his colleagues on the panel objected to a draft presented to parliament on Sunday and would campaign against it in an October referendum.

"We have not agreed on this constitution. We have objections which are the same as we had from day one," Hussein al-Falluji told Reuters, saying he was speaking for all Sunni delegates and denying suggestions the group was split.

"If there is no forging of the results, I believe the people will say "No" to the American constitution," he said, in reference to an expected referendum in October.

"This is an American constitution and we will not accept it no matter what," he said.

Referring to French and Dutch referendums this year that sank a draft constitution for the European Union, he said: "The Iraqi people will be the third after the French and Dutch to say 'No' to a constitution." Link