Sunnis rejoin Iraqi government

Reuters/NY Times:

Iraq's main Sunni Arab bloc rejoined the Shi'ite-led government on Saturday in a breakthrough for national reconciliation after parliament approved its candidates for several vacant ministerial posts.

Getting the Accordance Front to return after it quit a year ago in a row over power sharing has been seen as key to healing divisions between majority Shi'ites and minority Sunni Arabs.

Sunni Arabs have little voice in the current cabinet, which is dominated by Shi'ites and ethnic Kurds.

"Today, parliament voted to accept our candidates ... This means the Accordance Front has officially returned to the government," a senior lawmaker in the bloc, Salim al-Jubouri, told Reuters after the vote.

"It is a real step forward for political reform."

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I am sure it will come as a shock to Barack Obama who seems to think there is still a sectarian civil war going on in Iraq. It is just another example of how he hasn't been right about events in Iraq since October 2006 when his buddy Rezco lost his deal in the Kurdish region and Obama flipped from being a supporter of staying the course in Iraq to urging actions that would result in a victory for al Qaeda. He has pretty much ignored this part of his history on Iraq, preferring instead to stress his position in 2002 as opposed to his position in 2004 to October of 2006.

For some reason much of the media as also missed this "change" of Obama's, although there has been some focus on his recent slippery positions on his rigid withdrawal schedule.