Does the process dump the Sunnis by the wayside or do they stay and hammer out a compromise?

It's pretty messy and I think ultimately it won't do anything positive but just aggravate the violence.

They're negotiating about an institution that doesn't exist and shows no signs of coming to life, ... The state collapsed in June, 2003, and definitely needs to be rebuilt.

The British presence has been incredibly light, they have a laissez-faire attitude.

The response has to be swift and it has to be bloody to prove to the population of the town, and the whole of Iraq, that any attack on the president will be punished in brutal and horrific terms.