They just got a different tool to use than we do: They kill innocent lives to achieve objectives. That's what they do. And they're good. They get on the TV screens and they get people to ask questions about, well, you know, this, that or the other. I mean, they're able to kind of say to people: Don't come and bother us, because we will kill you. Bush - Joint News Conference with Blair - 28 July '06

Friday, October 07, 2005

The Iraqi Constitution and the Mission of Amro Moussa

al-hayat: The Arab decision to send the Secretary General of the Arab league Amro Moussa to Baghdad, in order to prepare for a national reconciliation convention in Iraq, is an extremely important matter. Moussa, who has a long experience in Arab policy, knows how difficult and delicate the mission assigned to him is.

Amro Moussa is an experienced Arab politician and diplomat, whose success in organizing the reconciliation convention in Iraq before the agreement on the Constitution embodies seniority. The Iraqi constitution, in its present form, represents a cause for division, and not for agreement, as it rules out a main category of the Iraqis represented in the Sunnites. Read more