National Assembly adjourns as Sunnis and Shiites fail to reach a compromise agreement

The National Assembly adjourned without voting on a draft of the constitution. The vote was supposed to be a sign that Iraq was coming together as a nation. But differences quickly became divisive. The Sunnis quickly dismissed the final offer from the Shiites saying that it wasnt enough. In the current draft it makes reference to Islam but not Arab which the Sunnis objected to. The Iraqi people are set to vote on the current draft of the constitution in October. One of the concerns that the Shiites had was that former Baath party members be prohibited from participating. The chief concern was they did not want the former regime elements to re-establish power in the new government.