Iraqi Insurgents Offer Peace Talks --Quick Get Condi A Copy! LINK

[Blackhatjack]

http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.independent.co.uk%2Fworld%2Ffisk%2Farticle2251354.ece

Robert Fisk article appearing in British Independent newspaper

Terms are impossible for US to accept, but the real story is that the Sunni insurgents are approaching the US about peace talks.

Will Condi say she never saw the offer or read it?

[Blackhatjack]

1. Fisk makes an excellent point --this is how French eventually withdrew from Algeria...

Initial proposals are always 'unacceptable.' However, the real news is that the parties are willing to talk to each other and negotiate.

No matter how far apart the parties are, there is the chance that the negotiations could lead to an agreement.

The added benefit is that as negotiations begin in earnest, there is a high likelihood that insurgent attacks would lessen or even be suspended.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. I don't think Bushco would take unconditional surrender as

an acceptable Sunni position right now. They need an excuse to complete the big plan, which involves going into Iran.

[Blackhatjack]

3. Exactly! And if this did not open talks, What would it take? ....

It seems to me that the failure to even acknowledge such an offer is proof that they have no interest in ending the fighting.

[madokie]

7. all to be lost on this crew I'm afraid though

we need new government officials from the president on down

[jarnocan]

4. we should send this en-masse to the MSM and congress folks nt

[Blackhatjack]

5. I agree, but they already have it. It is reported widely outside the US....n/t

[jarnocan]

9. true- like our protest marches & election fraud ......etc. nt

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. i missed it and I read a lot of newspapers and tube sites.

thanks for picking it up

[Divernan]

8. Info from the OP's link.

Robert Fisk: Iraqi insurgents offer peace in return for US concessions
For the first time, Sunni insurgents disclose their conditions for ceasefire in Iraq
Published: 09 February 2007
For the first time, one of Iraq's principal insurgent groups has set out the terms of a ceasefire that would allow American and British forces to leave the country they invaded almost four years ago.

The present terms would be impossible for any US administration to meet - but the words of Abu Salih Al-Jeelani, one of the military leaders of the Sunni Iraqi Islamic Resistance Movement show that the groups which have taken more than 3,000 American lives are actively discussing the opening of contacts with the occupation army.

Al-Jeelani's group, which also calls itself the "20th Revolution Brigades'', is the military wing of the original insurgent organisation that began its fierce attacks on US forces shortly after the invasion of 2003. The statement is, therefore, of potentially great importance, although it clearly represents only the views of Sunni Muslim fighters.

Shia militias are nowhere mentioned. The demands include the cancellation of the entire Iraqi constitution - almost certainly because the document, in effect, awards oil-bearing areas of Iraq to Shia and Kurds, but not to the minority Sunni community. Yet the Sunnis remain Washington's principal enemies in the Iraqi war.

[Bobbie Jo]

10. Condi: Worst. Diplomat. Ever. n/t

[crikkett]

11. Kick!

[applegrove]

12. No. Condi will say she wasn't informed.