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Posted Monday, July 17, 2006, at 5:59 PM ET

One point of etiquette the card doesn't mention: Don't show a Sunni the panel that says his group, which governed Iraq for most of the last century, represents only 35 percent of the country's total population. They tend to be touchy about that.

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Posted Monday, July 17, 2006, at 5:59 PM ET
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