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Article: Now in the political process, Iraq's Sunni Arabs have tough choices to make
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- October 16, 2005
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HAMZA HENDAWI, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
10-16-2005
Dateline: BAGHDAD, Iraq
They turned out to vote this time, but appeared to have lost at the polls.
Will Iraq's Sunni Arabs still stick with the political process they have finally joined? Or, dismayed by their country's direction, will they move back to the sidelines and look to the Sunni-led insurgency to bring them a better deal?
Sunni Arabs, a minority that had traditionally formed Iraq's ruling class, came out of their political isolation Saturday to vote in droves on a draft constitution that many of them see as flawed. Accounting for just 20 percent of Iraq's estimated 27 million people, they mostly voted "no," but the ...