Insurgents offer to halt attacks in Iraq

By STEVEN R. HURST and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, Associated Press Writers
3 minutes ago

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.

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Thanks for posting, this should be interesting.

In Washington, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said that
President Bush's "view has been and remains that a timetable is not something that is useful. It is a signal to the enemies that all you have to do is just wait and it's yours.

"The goal is not to trade something off for something else to make somebody happy, the goal is to succeed," he said.

Bush has said U.S. troops will remain in Iraq for years to guarantee the success of the new Iraqi government. However, American military officials have said substantial reductions of the current force of 127,000 U.S. troops could be made before the end of 2007.

Eight of the 11 insurgent groups banded together to approach al-Maliki's government under The 1920 Revolution Brigade, which has claimed credit for killing U.S. troops in the past. All 11, working through intermediaries, have issued identical demands, according to insurgent spokesmen and government officials.

The officials spoke on condition of anomymity because of the sensitivity of the information and for fear of retribution.

Because if we ever do, Iraq will be overrun by bad guys.

gasp! then they will just sit back and wait for us to leave.

any bets that the bushies will "f*#k" this up?