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08/27/2005:

"Sunni Arabs Rally to Protest Proposed Iraqi Constitution"

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 26 - With Iraq's new constitution still in limbo, thousands of Sunni Arabs rallied in central and northern Iraq on Friday to protest the proposed draft.

Followers of Moktada al-Sadr demonstrated peacefully in Baghdad Friday, a day after members of his militia clashed with rival Shiites.

In Kirkuk, in the north, more than 2,000 Sunnis marched in the streets after Friday Prayer, chanting "No to federalism," "Iraq is the home of all" and "Baathists are loyal Iraqis." In Baquba, a largely Sunni city northeast of Baghdad, several thousand people marched, some carrying pictures of Saddam Hussein, whose Baath Party kept the Sunni minority in power for years.

Sunni political leaders have refused to agree to the draft constitution in large part because a Shiite proposal would create a vast autonomous region in Iraq's oil-rich south. The Sunnis say that proposal - which would parallel the federal zone governed by the Kurds in northern Iraq - could cripple the Iraqi state and allow neighboring Iran to dominate the Shiite south.
Full: nytimes.com

We went in there to wreck that country and by-jeezus we're gonna do it.