Wicker: Changing attitudes key in Iraq

The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 10/9/7

Movement toward long-term stability and sectarian reconciliation in a united government remains within grasp in Iraq, U.S. Rep. Roger Wicker said Monday after a day in Baghdad and two nights in Qatar.

Wicker, in a telephone interview from Ramstein U.S. Air Force Base in Germany, said he agrees with Iraqi government officials reported by The Washington Post as saying a reconciliation government “would emerge naturally from an efficient, fair government, not through short-term political engineering among Sunnis and Shiites,” citing Humam Hamoudi, a prominent Shiite cleric and member of the Iraqi parliament.