"Insurgents offer to halt attacks in Iraq" IF the US Is GONE In 2 Years!

[leftchick]

This is so fucked...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060628/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_060628170119

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Eleven Sunni insurgent groups have offered an immediate halt to all attacks — including those on American troops — if the United States agrees to withdraw foreign forces from Iraq in two years, insurgent and government officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

Withdrawal is the centerpiece of a set of demands from the groups, which operate north of Baghdad in the heavily Sunni Arab provinces of Salahuddin and Diyala. Although much of the fighting has been to the west, those provinces are increasingly violent and attacks there have crippled oil and commerce routes.

The groups who've made contact have largely shunned attacks on Iraqi civilians, focusing instead on the U.S.-led coalition forces. Their offer coincides with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's decision to reach out to the Sunni insurgency with a reconciliation plan that includes an amnesty for fighters.

The Islamic Army in Iraq, Muhammad Army and the Mujahedeen Shura Council — the umbrella group that covers eight militant groups including al-Qaida in Iraq — were not party to any offers to the government.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Call Delay and remind him that we don't negotiate with

"terrorists".... he really is an ass of the third degree.

[FloridaPat]

2. Two years? Why 2 years? They have too much ammo and

need to use it? Why not immediately? Sounds like planted info. Just enough to get through the election.

[jerry611]

4. Because these guys are not stupid!

They know if they request we leave right now, it will simply be brushed aside. They've been demanding withdrawl since 2003. If they call for it again, no one is going to listen.

But now they say...2 years. The reason for that is because they want the offer to sink into the minds of the American voter and the politicians. Because in two years, we may be willing to leave if we have an established government or not.

This benefits them because these groups can spend the next two years gathering ammo, regroup, and train. Therefore when we leave, they can attack the government and declare civil war.

Remember that Osama Bin Ladin himself offered a truce to Europe if they left the mid-east.

[BuyingThyme]

3. The insurgents in Iraq are now better leaders than our politicians.

The legacy of Reid-Pelosi.

[sweetheart]

5. Do they really think the US will break up in 2 years.

Wow, if the US is gone in 2 years, then the run on the bank is
gonna be tremendous before then. How do these insurgents know
this stuff?