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The concept of federalism proposed in the Iraqi constitution draft is not exactly identical to ours but it is close. There are 18 provinces in Iraq. The Northern Sunni Kurdish provinces will form some type of an a “larger” federal provinces, and the Southern Shiite Arab provinces will form another “larger” federal province, and the Central/Western four mostly Sunni Arab provinces are asked in the constitution draft to form a similar larger federal provinces. Of course there will be still be a strong central federal government in Baghdad that will control the internal security, the army, the foreign policy, the federal reserve (central bank), the currency, and will control over a large portion of the oil revenue in the country whereas the other portions will go to the federal provinces mainly in the North and the South were the oil well and reserves are.

The Sunni Arabs do not want a federal government not because of they fear a breakdown of Iraq which will not occur but because they are not in total and absolute power and they used to do since WW II. A large portion of the Sunni Arabs in Iraq are very nasty and brutal and they cannot stand losing power also they are a small minority. Many of them consider Shiite and Kurds as second class citizens who are way inferior to them and must not share power or money with them. I do not have any sympathy to them, and as I said before they must be shown on one way or another that their old days of brutal dictatorship and the rule of minority is long gone.