Sunnis Call for National Unity

[rlg94086]

This sounds promising. I hope and pray that the Shiite majority will work with the opposing parties to achieve a unified Iraq that serves all well.

foxnews.com/story/0,2933,182404,00.html

“We will participate actively in the political process and we will cooperate with many political entities that share us the same principles,” said [Adnan al-Dulaimi](javascript:siteSearch(‘Adnan al-Dulaimi’), whose Iraqi Accordance Front won 44 seats.
“We believe in achieving stability, halting random arrests, releasing all detainees, eliminating sectarianism and preventing any sectarian group from dominating the government and rule the country in a dictatorial manner.”

Saleh al-Mutlaq, leader of a separate Sunni group that won 11 seats, pledged to work toward formation of “a government of national unity” that would combat sectarianism.

 

[Ani_Ibi]

Releasing all detainees doesn’t sound good.

 

[gilliam]

Ani Ibi:

Releasing all detainees doesn’t sound good.

Once political stability is obtained it will be done anyway. Well all detainees who could be considered combatants and did not commit what Iraq considers an unforgivable crime.

President Lincoln did something similar after our Civil War.

I am not sure if the Sunnis are talking about foreigners though. I doubt it. They don’t like al-Qaeda any more.

 

[rlg94086]

I would guess that they may release Baathist loyalists from Syria and Iraqis who were fighting. We probably don’t want to know what they might do to the al-Quaeda types.

gilliam:

Once political stability is obtained it will be done anyway. Well all detainees who could be considered combatants and did not commit what Iraq considers an unforgivable crime.

President Lincoln did something similar after our Civil War.

I am not sure if the Sunnis are talking about foreigners though. I doubt it. They don’t like al-Qaeda any more.