Finally, some good news out of Iraq. What do all the naysayers and Cassandras have to say now? The valient fighting force we have inserted into the situation have accomplished something that no regeime since the modern state of Iraq was invented on a map in a ministry boardroom in London following WWI have been able to do – ending the generation-old blood feud and uniting the two antagonistic ethnic populations, the Sunni and the Shi’ite branches of Iraqi Islam. Don’t be surprised to see George Bush and Condi Rice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for this one….
General Sanchez said today that there may be links between the Shiite and Sunni insurgents at low levels of the resistance movements but offered no further analysis.
In Baghdad, thousands of Sunni and Shiite protesters held a rally outside the Um al-Qura mosque in solidarity with Sunni countrymen in Falluja, Karbala and other conflict zones, Reuters reported. Similar rallies took place in Mosul and Baquba, north of the capital.
Militant Shiites were seen delivering food aid to a Sunni mosque in Baghdad as part of a relief effort for the residents of Sunni-dominated Falluja.
from the New York Times