Saturday, September 09, 2006

Bush says dividing Iraq into separate regions would be a mistake

WASHINGTON President George W. Bush says he believes dividing Iraq into three separate regions — Kurdish, Shiite and Sunni — with a central government in Baghdad would be a mistake.

Iraqis did not vote for partition when they approved a new constitution and government, Bush said in Saturday's Wall Street Journal.

Read the rest at the International Herald Tribune

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