I'VE HEARD IT ALL! US wants to pull INSURGENTS into political process

[Bluebear]

Yesterday they were TERRORISTS, today politicians. Please call your Bush-voting colleagues and relatives and see what they make of THIS flip-flop! :rofl:

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. officials are negotiating with Sunni Arab leaders to pull insurgents into Iraq's political process, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday. An American-Iraqi offensive, meanwhile, killed at least 10 militants, including four blown apart by their own car bomb.

The U.S. official's statement to reporters came after a Sunni Arab politician and a senior Shiite leader told The Associated Press they were holding talks with some groups in the insurgency, thought to include up to 20,000 fighters in their ranks.

"Some insurgents are irredeemable and have to be dealt with in a purely military way and there are some who are looking to enter the political process under some conditions," the official told a Baghdad briefing, given on condition of anonymity.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050609/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[EFerrari]

1. Yep, that's how pretzels are made.

I'd laugh because it's so ridiculous. But I bet it's not funny to the poor people being called terrorists, dissidents and insurgents who've lost kin and limb to this illegal invasion and occupation.

[bluestateguy]

2. Yep

And if it was President Kerry directing this (to clean up Bush's mess) then the right wing radio talk show hosts would starting yapping about "appeasement". :eyes:

[slor]

3. Oh they would do more than "yap"...

I honestly believe that there would be attempts on Kerry's life. But not for Mr. Chimpy McShameUs. Willfully blind fools.

[B Calm]

4. Hell Fox News still calls insurgents TERRORISTS...

[Bluebear]

5. I'm sure that will change tout suite.

As their monkey emperor now proclaims them potential politicians.

[HamdenRice]

6. First intelligent thing the shrub administration has done ...

The South African government eventually had to negotiate with "terrorists" like Nelson Mandela and the ANC, Israel had to negotiate with the PLO. War is politics by other means, and the only way the war will end eventually is by pulling the insurgents into some kind of political process.

That said, I believe the shrub administration is simply too incompetent to engage them politically in the process. And it is fine with me to point out the hypocrisy and use it against the shrubistas.