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I wonder if today is the day that historians will look back and mark as the beginning of the end for the Bush administration’s experiment in Iraq. As of 10:32 AM EST the Associate Press is reporting that the
Iraqi Parliament is giving up on the constitution (and consequently, the final defense of this war and the first step towards civil war):

Parliament announced it had no plans to meet Thursday night and no date for a future session, signaling Iraqi factions were failing to reach agreement on a new constitution before a self-imposed midnight target.

The statement from National Assembly’s top spokesman, Bishro Ibrahim, came as negotiators struggled for consensus on a draft by the close of a 72-hour extension granted Monday night by parliament, after Sunni Arabs blocked a vote on a charter accepted by Shiite and Kurdish negotiators.

Earlier Thursday, a radical Shiite cleric called on followers to end clashes with Shiite rivals, one day after his office in the holy city of Najaf was burned and four of his supporters were killed.

Iraq is not a nation.

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