Chimpy wants to make nice with the Iraqi Resistance now. Whodathunk?

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http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBBMF1XZUD.html

U.N. Envoy Brahimi Urges Reconciliation Dialogue With Anti-American Insurgents, Hints at U.S. Pressure

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The U.N. envoy urged Iraqis on Wednesday to accept the new interim government he helped put together, and called for a dialogue with "patriotic" elements of the anti-American insurgency - a departure from U.S. policy.

The envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi, also acknowledged a strong American hand in shaping the new government, which held its first meeting Wednesday under Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, a CIA-backed Shiite politician.

Popular reaction to the new government was mixed. Some Iraqis said the new Cabinet was no different from the U.S.-picked Governing Council that dissolved itself Tuesday. Others said it was full of politicians who lived too long in exile and were out of touch with their homeland.

"We were hoping that the Americans would exercise some of the democratic practices they preach," university lecturer Adnan Ahmed, 49, said. "But we know now that they were just glamorous slogans." snip

Brahimi also hinted that the United States and its chief administrator in Iraq, L. Paul Bremer, had wielded considerable influence in the selection of ministers.

"I sometimes say, I'm sure he doesn't mind me saying that, Bremer is the dictator of Iraq," Brahimi said. "He has the money. He has the signature. Nothing happens without his agreement in this country."

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1. From terrorists to patriots. We been saying the same thing for a year now

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3008576

Not All Iraqi Rebels are Terrorists Says Bush

Iraqis fighting American troops are not all terrorists, President George Bush said in an interview today and he insisted he could understand their distaste for occupation.

Bush told Paris Match magazine that “no one would want to be in the place” of Iraqis under occupation.

“They are not all terrorists,” Bush said in the Oval Office. “The suicide bombers are, but other fighters aren’t. They can’t stand being occupied.”

“That’s why we are giving them back their sovereignty,” he added, a reference to US plans to hand over control of the country to an interim Iraqi government on June 30.

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2. Hmmm, when do you try dialog and reconciliation?

That is, when you've been locked in mortal combat? Usually you sue for peace when you're . . . not winning. Could that be?

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3. But what happened to "Bring It On"

could our ever-constant pResident be Flip-Flopping ?

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4. Bring what on? Oh. Bring them on? I remember now. So do the Iraqis

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