End Of The Road

Really? I thought President Bush called them (from his vacation) and pressured them to come to a consensus.

An Iraqi government spokesman said early Saturday that talks on a draft constitution were hopelessly deadlocked and that 'this is the end of the road.'

A top Sunni Arab negotiator said said no agreement had been reached, and he called on Iraqis to reject it in an Oct. 15 referendum. The Sunni negotiator, Saleh al-Mutlaq, made the statement on Al Jazeera television after Sunnis studied compromise proposals offered by the Shiites on federalism and purges of former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party.

'The issue of division through federalism is on the table,' Mutlaq said. 'The Iraqi people have to give their word now and reject the constitution because this constitution is the beginning of the division of the country and the beginning of creating disturbance in the country.'