Mystical Politics Paparazi: Iraq To Set Timeline

Saturday, June 24, 2006

Iraq To Set Timeline

Withdrawal of Troops

Finally a ray of hope that the nightmare in Iraq may be coming to an end. At least we can hope that sanity will prevail in an administration hell-bent on eternal war.

A timeline for withdrawal of Occupying Troops and amnesty for Iraqi Insurgents has been formulated by the Prime Minister, the American Ambassador and seven Sunni Insurgency Groups. Yes friends and neighbors, you are reading it correctly. Two of the things that Bush has said he would not do are being proposed by the Iraqi's. We do not negotiate with terrorists and we will not set a timeline for troops to leave Iraq.

How will the NeoCons manage to control the Middle East without troops in the permanent bases being built in Iraq? How will they convince the Iraqi's that it is OK for foreign troops to be permanently located in the Islamic Republic of Iraq? How will Bush justify building 12 permanent bases at a cost of billions of American Dollars and then have to give them up? How will they spin the negotiating with insurgants that until just recently they classified as terrorists?

Newsweek

Maliki's Master Plan

A national reconciliation plan for Iraq calls for a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. troops and, controversially, amnesty for insurgents who attacked American and Iraqi soldiers.

June 24, 2006 - A timetable for withdrawal of occupation troops from Iraq. Amnesty for all insurgents who attacked U.S. and Iraqi military targets. Release of all security detainees from U.S. and Iraqi prisons. Compensation for victims of coalition military operations.

Those sound like the demands of some of the insurgents themselves, and in fact they are. But they're also key clauses of a national reconciliation plan drafted by new Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who will unveil it Sunday.

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Peace deal offers Iraq insurgents an amnesty

June 23, 2006 - THE Iraqi Government will announce a sweeping peace plan as early as Sunday ...

The 28-point package for national reconciliation will offer Iraqi resistance groups inclusion in the political process and an amnesty for their prisoners...

The Government will promise a finite, UN-approved timeline for the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Iraq; a halt to US operations against insurgent strongholds; an end to human rights violations, including those by coalition troops; and compensation for victims of attacks by terrorists or Iraqi and coalition forces.

The deal, which has been seen by The Times, aims to divide Iraqi insurgents from foreign fighters linked to al-Qaeda. It builds on months of secret talks involving Jalal al-Talabani, the Iraqi President, Zalmay Khalilzad, the US Ambassador, and seven Sunni insurgent groups.