It's been a good day for Iraq.

If you would think that all the Sunni Arabs on the constitutional drafting committee would say, 'OK, we agree with the others' ... I think this is an illusion. I think that consensus is almost impossible.

It's more or less a fait accompli that he's not going back to office.

We think (a boycott) would weaken Iraq because the only way that Iraq can recover is done by concentrating on the political process, writing the constitution and participating in it, ... Any act that calls for violence or boycotting would deviate the country from its course.

The sooner we get the constitution over and done with, the faster we can move at rebuilding the state and rebuilding the country. So a delay is not a good thing, but it's not a disaster. If people want to say more, and that's what it is, then that will set the ball rolling for the new round of elections.

America has its own agenda in dealing with different cases and Iraq has its own program, but the government is paying more attention to this issue and investigating it.

A delay is not a good thing, but it's not a disaster.

This draft must be presented to the people.

I hope that these attacks will wake up the `Jordanian street' to end their sympathy with Saddam's remnants ... who exploit the freedom in this country to have a safe shelter to plot their criminal acts against Iraqis.