THE SUNN DON'T SHI'INE ON THE SAME DOG'S BUTT EVERY DAY:

Why Iraq's Sunnis fear constitution: Parliament is likely to approve the constitution by Thursday's deadline, despite Sunni objections. (Dan Murphy and Jill Carroll, 8/24/05, CS Monitor)

[A]t root of the Sunni rejection of the constitutional process is fear itself. The psyche of this community, from which Saddam Hussein's most fervent supporters were drawn and who enjoyed privileged positions until his regime was toppled, has been badly damaged in the past few years.

Many fears about the new Iraq are expressed throughout Baghdad's Sunni neighborhoods. They fear that Iraq's new masters will punish them for supporting Mr. Hussein's regime; they fear they don't have leaders or social cohesion; and they fear their former status will never be regained.

Where were all the hand-wringers in the media and on the left when the Afrikaaners felt this way?

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Meanwhile, guess who gets it?

The vacationing president called reporters to a mountain resort 100 miles north of here to address efforts in Iraq to reach agreement on a constitution. He issued a blunt warning to the Sunni minority, which has yet to agree to a draft of the constitution. "The Sunnis have got to make a choice," Bush said. "Do they want to live in a society that's free, or do they want to live in violence?"

Posted by Orrin Judd at August 23, 2005 9:02 PM