Update [2005-8-15 16:30:7 by BooMan]: Here is a better update from CNN.
Update [2005-8-15 16:21:44 by BooMan]: Dexter Filkins now has the story up at the New York Times
It appears the Iraqi interim National Assembly managed to amend the interim constitution and create an additional seven days for resolving outstanding problems in the proposed permanent constitution. Any amendment requires a three-fourths majority. A failure to amend the constitution by midnight would have necessitated the dissolving of the Assembly and new elections. Bush must be letting out a sigh of relief. However, new elections with better Sunni participation would not have necessarily been a bad thing.
It’s just that we have run out of time, and we are more interested in moving the process along, than getting it right.
