Iraq parliament cancels constitution session

BAGHDAD (AFP) - The Iraqi parliament has cancelled a meeting to vote on the country's draft constitution.

"The meeting has been postponed without setting a new date... until meetings are finished and (leaders) reach an agreement on pending issues," an official at the national assembly's media department told AFP on Thursday.

Drafting of the constitution, which was initially due to have been submitted to parliament on August 15, has been dogged by disputes over a number of key issues including federalism, the role of Islam and sharing of oil wealth.

I personally did not think the Iraqis were given enough time to write a constution, events like creating a constutution cannot be rushed.

The Bush Junta only cared about its image and the flagging support of the war, a nice shiny constution would go someway to showing that the misadventure in Iraq was not just a pointless clusterfuck.