State Department says Iraqis are not endorsing terrorism

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WASHINGTON – Responding to a statement by Iraqis recognizing a right of resistance, the State Department on Tuesday said they had endorsed neither terrorism nor violence.

"They are calling on people to confront terrorism, so I think that is certainly very positive," spokesman Sean McCormack said of a statement adopted by Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish leaders at a reconciliation conference in Cairo, Egypt, backed by the Arab League.

The statement, he said, deals with the legitimate right to peaceful protest, peaceful expression of differences. And, he said, the United States had "no quarrel with that idea."

"Take a look at exactly what they are doing," McCormack told reporters at the daily department briefing for the news media. "They are coming out against violence."

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[pinniped]

1. That's why they want a US withdrawal timetable.

--"They are coming out against violence." --

[elehhhhna]

2. State Dept rewriting history as it happens! That's fast!

[Supersedeas]

4. labeling US troops as legitimate targets is not non-violent protest

up is down
right is left
2 + 2 = 5

[Malva Zebrina]

3. Iraq is now sovereign--45% of the people think that attacking the occupier

country, that is the US is justified.

err excuse me all you people who think we have to stay the course

Are we staying the course, in spite of what a sovereign democracy, namely Iraq, who now has a Constitution and a democracy, to stick it to them?

Why are our soldiers being killed and being put into harm's way every day, when 45% of the people in that new democracy want them out and think it is justified to attack the occupiers?

Excuse me Mr. Cheney--but you have control over this new democracy? Whjat kind of a democracy is that when you trash people of this country who oppose this continued war and devastation, and allow the democratic state of Iraq to claim that attacking our troops is justified?

Get out-now and let them have thier stuff--oh, what you say--they do not have a right to their stuff? (oil)
Bush has made a complete and total mess of the whole thing--and it would be cause to make fun of him, if it were not for the 2,100 who have died for his greed, and because of your lies.

Bush claims they died to bring freedoms to the Iraqi people and now they have the so called freedom and they have a Constitution and they want the US OUT and they want to align with Iran and they want to have control of their country and it's assets without the US occupying their country.

How very un American of them. What traitors to the American way.

And for this, our young have died. Needlessly.