Iraq - AP Cries a River for the Sunnis

Stop it, stop it! You're breaking my heart! This AP article will just break your heart over the Sunnis desperate plight.

Let's start with the headline.

Iraq's Sunnis say things never worse

Well yeah, duh? Having lost all their privileges when Saddam bit the dust, has to be a downer.

Now check out this opening para.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's Shiite-dominated government has been in power less than two months, and minority Sunni Arabs, the dominant force in the nation's relentless and bloody insurgency — are struggling to find a place in the country's future.

I'll bet al Qaeda's man, Jordanian Zarqawi, is going to be pissed off when he reads that. He's already steamed that the Sunnis are looking for a way out. Especially since so many have now joined the government, military and police force. That's why he keeps trying to blow them all up.

As for "struggling to find a place in the country's future", they should have thought about that when the boycotted the elections. Life's a bitch boys.

Now whose fault is all this Sunni misery anyway?

But the once-powerful community, at its lowest point since the U.S.-led invasion and ouster of Saddam Hussein, refuses to accept second-class status and believes it still has trump cards to play, chief among them: withholding approval of a new constitution in a fall referendum.

Oh, yeah, almost forgot, nasty Americans came in and booted Saddam out and the Sunnis lost their meal ticket. Bloodly yanks, always busting the bad guys and spoiling the fun of the tyrants.

Get the hankies ready.

"These are very harsh times for us," said legislator Salih al-Mutlak, leader of a Sunni Arab umbrella group. "I am not optimistic, but maybe things will change after the next election."

Well my heart bleeds for you pal. Times were pretty good when you and Saddam were murdering thousands of your countrymen.

More of the obvious coming.

Worse under new government

As bad as conditions became after Saddam fell from power and the Americans were running things, many Sunni Arab leaders claim conditions have only become worse under the government of Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari.

Should have thought of that when you boycotted the elections pal. Did I mention that already?

Oh, it goes on and on. Cry me a bleeding river.

Does Al Jazeera own AP? Just asking.
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