[antimedia] antimedia: Is peace in Iraq....

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Is peace in Iraq....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1151107560.shtml


   ....[1]just around the corner? It would appear so.

     THE Iraqi Government will announce a sweeping peace plan as early
     as Sunday in a last-ditch effort to end the Sunni insurgency that
     has taken the country to the brink of civil war.
     The 28-point package for national reconciliation will offer Iraqi
     resistance groups inclusion in the political process and an amnesty
     for their prisoners if they renounce violence and lay down their
     arms, The Times can reveal.
     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.

   There are still some details to work out, not least amnesty for some
   who have killed American soldiers

     But one big potential obstacle is whether the US would be willing
     to grant an amnesty to insurgents who have killed US soldiers but
     who are not members of extreme groups such as al-Qaeda. The Bush
     Administration is thought to be split on the issue.

   So long as they aren't people like the ones who recently slaughtered
   two young soldiers, I don't think this will be a problem. The American
   people understand that soldiers die in war. Once a peace treaty is
   signed, the killing stops and all is forgiven.
   It should not, and better not, include the foreign terrorists who have
   wantonly slaughtered Iraqis and killed hundreds of Americans with
   their IEDs. (Hat tip to [2]Chester.)

References

   1. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-2239088,00.html
   2. http://www.theadventuresofchester.com/archives/2006/06/the_iraqi_peace.html