Great news from Iraq

From Alertnet comes this story: bq. Shi'ites, Sunnis gather in Baghdad to reject revenge Sunni and Shi'ite leaders stood side by side in Baghdad on Wednesday to urge Iraqis to avoid a civil war after suicide attacks on a holy day killed scores of Shi'ite worshipers. bq. Thousands of Shi'ites converged on their holiest Baghdad shrine to mourn the more than 70 of their brethren killed in a bombing on Tuesday that occurred at nearly the same time as an attack killed dozens of others in the city Kerbala. bq. Hundreds of Shi'ites waved black flags of mourning and backed their clerics' plea for unity, chanting: "We are brothers, Sunnis and Shi'ites, and we will not sell our country to foreigners." The blasts were caused by non-Iraqi extremists hoping to prevent the formation of a peaceful and successful Arab state in Iraq. That would be the wedge that would serve to unseat the autocratic fundamentalist and corrupt rule in most of the nations there. Cool heads need to prevail now and it looks like they are.