'Nation' we don't accept, |
(Friday) they were fighting each other. Until noon (Saturday) there were no improvements but suddenly after Bush called them, they all went to the meeting. There is strong American pressure because they are very much concerned about Iraq. |
[Sunni approval of the constitution would have] created a big movement against the terrorists, ... It is a good document. What worries us is our Sunni Arab friends. |
[The Sunnis were not satisfied,] so this will create some problems, ... But we now hope the Sunnis will use their freedom and their rights in a peaceful way. |
Americans are working very hard to work out something. |
Any day that passes, we lose a day of work. |
Being a Muslim, he understands what Islam means, and Islam is very important in Iraq right now. And being an Easterner he understands our traditions. |
but the question is, would this draft satisfy the Sunni Arabs' demands. |
By what I saw today, I don't think this can be achieved tomorrow. |
encourages the political leaders to finish the job as well as present compromises. |
Everyone is nervous. The security situation is not good. There are so many explosions at the checkpoints and near the convoys. The Americans are afraid. And when the driver doesn't see them, it happens sometimes that civilians are killed. It is a tragedy that most of the victims are civilians. It is making life more difficult. But this is our situation. It is very dangerous. |
Everyone is trying to convince his own people and we haven't reached an agreement on federalism. |
From the very beginning, we said that if the constitution committee wants to have a draft that all would agree on, it would be impossible by Aug. 15, ... The Sunnis haven't agreed on some points, and I don't think they will. The Kurds also haven't gotten their demands yet. ... There's a concern that the Sunnis and Kurds might boycott. |
He cannot make a successful prime minister. We experienced ... a year in which he was not capable of addressing the issues of Iraq. Why should we repeat this failure? |
He doesn't share his decision with others, like his last visit to Turkey, which was wrong because he didn't tell his deputy, the president, the minister of foreign affairs. It was a decision he made by himself without going back to the government. Iraq is in a pool of blood and the prime minister left to visit Turkey, while in such a situation there shouldn't be any official outside the country. |