IRAQ RECONCILIATION???

Not so much, really. (h/t Spencer Ackerman)

Some Sunni Muslims won't salute Iraq's new flag
By Leila Fadel and Hussein Kadhim McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Friday, January 25, 2008

BAGHDAD — Officials in Iraq's mostly Sunni Muslim Anbar province are refusing to raise Iraq's new national flag, which the parliament approved earlier this week.

"The new flag is done for a foreign agenda and we won't raise it," said Ali Hatem al Suleiman, a leading member of the U.S.-backed Anbar Awakening Council, "If they want to force us to raise it, we will leave the yard for them to fight al Qaida."

The dispute over the flag is a more accurate symbol of Iraq today than the flag itself is. "On nothing we are completely united," said Mahmoud Othman, an independent Kurdish lawmaker.