Iraq update

Robert Fisk offers his take on the delay in writing the Iraqi Constitution:

As usual in Iraq, a grotesque political failure was being dressed up as a semi-victory last night by an Iraqi government that controls little more than a few square miles of Baghdad.
For inside the infamous Green Zone - the castellated, concrete-barricaded pseudo-castle in which most of Iraq’s principal politicians are now forced to live - the almost equally infamous constitution, which was supposed to have completed its drafting yesterday, appeared to be falling to pieces.
Infamous, of course, to the Sunnis who are appalled that the country’s Shia Muslim and Kurdish representatives want their own federal states included in the nation and - more to the point - in the constitution, which was supposed to be going before the Iraqi parliament last night.