Here’s the lat­est entry on the con­sti­tu­tional wran­gling. Many of the Sun­nis on Iraq’s Con­sti­tu­tional Com­mit­tee “are opposed to any­thing other than a highly cen­tral­ized government”:http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1083936,00.html, which the Shi’ites and Kurds are equally opposed to. The Sun­nis see decen­tral­iza­tion, which is called “fed­er­al­ism” here, as a pre­lude to par­ti­tion­ing. The Kurds, how­ever, say if there’s no fed­er­al­ism, there’s going to be war.
I tell you, at some point Iraq’s Arabs are finally going to get fed up with the Kurds and their demands and tell them not to let the door hit them on their way out. Which, of course, would suit most Kurds just fine.