Here We Go Again

FOX News reports that Iraqi authorities are saying that there will be a draft constitution presented today --- definitely.

Yeah, we've heard that one before.

They also say that the draft to be presented will be incomplete and that they will leave certain touchy issues up to the decision of the full assembly.

Well good -- I've been advocating that all along, and if the Assembly can't decide, leave them for the legislative process after the referendum.

UPDATE:

Well, it looks as though they're taking my advice [at least it looks that way to me]

AP reports:

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Prodded by President Bush, Shiite negotiators Friday offered what they called their final compromise proposal to Sunnis Arabs to try to break the impasse over Iraq's new constitution, a Shiite official said.

Bush telephoned a key Shiite leader, Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, on Thursday to urge consensus over the draft, Abbas al-Bayati told The Associated Press.

The Shiites were awaiting a response from the Sunnis, al-Bayati said.

He said the concessions were on the pivotal issues of federalism and efforts to remove former members of Saddam Hussein's Sunni-dominated Baath Party from public life, adding: "We cannot offer more than that."

Al-Bayati said the Shiites had proposed that the parliament expected to be elected in December be given the right to issue a law on the mechanism of implementing federalism. He gave no further details.

Read it here. From the sound of it things are getting pretty hectic. But then, that's democracy.