RW attacking Joe Wilson:"US Should Negotiate With Iraqi Terrorists"

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http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200606/NAT20060615a.html

Joe Wilson: US Should Negotiate With Iraqi Terrorists
By Nathan Burchfiel
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
June 15, 2006

Washington, D.C. (CNSNews.com) - Former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson, whose wife was at the center of a CIA leak case that led to the indictment of Vice President Cheney's top aide, argued Wednesday that the U.S. needs to bring Iraqi insurgents and their "foreign patrons" to the conference table for negotiations.

During a panel discussion at the liberal Take Back America conference in Washington, D.C., Wilson said diplomatic efforts to establish Iraq as a democratic power in the region should also include "the Egyptians, the Jordanians, the Saudis, the Iranians ... the Turks, probably some leading powers from Europe and Russia, all of whom have interests at stake."

Wilson, a former U.S. diplomat in Iraq and ambassador to Gabon, has been a leading critic of the Bush administration since his wife, Valeria Plame, was outed as a CIA operative in 2003. He alleges that the White House leaked her identity as payback for an op-ed he wrote in the New York Times arguing that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction.

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"Make no mistake about it, if you still support the (war) policies of this president and this administration, you don't deserve the vote of Democrats, independents or, shall I say, even Republicans," Wilson said, echoing a larger theme of the three-day conference.

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Wonder how the Freepers are reacting to this piece of news?

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20060615/1071962.asp

Al-Maliki to offer insurgents pardon in turn for peace

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Wednesday proposed a limited amnesty to help end the Sunni Arab insurgency as part of a national reconciliation plan that Maliki said would be released within days. The plan is likely to include pardons for those who had attacked only U.S. troops, a top adviser said.

Al-Maliki's declaration of openness to talks with some members of Sunni armed factions and the prospect of pardons are concessions that previous interim governments had avoided. The statements marked the first time a leader from Iraq's governing Shiite religious parties has publicly embraced national reconciliation, welcomed dialogue with armed groups and proposed a limited amnesty.

Reconciliation could include an amnesty for those "who weren't involved in the shedding of Iraqi blood," al-Maliki told reporters at a Baghdad news conference. "Also, it includes talks with the armed men who opposed the political process and now want to turn back to political activity."

Al-Maliki stressed that he had not yet met with the Sunni resistance and added, "We will talk to those whose hands are not stained with blood, and we hope they would rethink their strategy." He vowed that they "will not be able to interrupt the political process, either by wanting to bring back the old regime or imposing an ugly, ethnic new regime upon Iraq."

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1. CNSNews? oof... But, check this out! GOP Sens. SUPPORT terrorist amnesty!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1437597