President George W. Bush has urged Shiites to make concessions to Sunni Arabs on two key points - federalism and Saddam Hussein's Baath party - to win their support for Iraq's constitution, a Shiite official said Friday following a third extension of the deadline to approve the document...
Al-Adeeb said Bush personally telephoned Shiite leader Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim and asked him to make compromises on clauses that would purge former members of Saddam's Sunni-dominated Baath party from government jobs and political life and on federalism, which the Sunnis strongly oppose.
The bad news: As expected, the definition is filed under the heading of "Things other people do". And according to the article, it looks like the Shiites are paying more attention to Bush's actions than to his words.
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