YANKEE GO HOME

From the AP via the London Guardian courtesy of Nitpicker courtesy of Eschaton (god, what a mouthful!):

Iraqi Leaders Call for Pullout Timetable

Leaders of Iraq's sharply divided Shiites, Kurds and Sunnis called Monday for a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S.-led forces in the country and said Iraq's opposition had a "legitimate right'' of resistance.

The final communique, hammered out at the end of three days of negotiations at a preparatory reconciliation conference under the auspices of the Arab League, condemned terrorism, but was a clear acknowledgment of the Sunni position that insurgents should not be labeled as terrorists if their operations do not target innocent civilians or institutions designed to provide for the welfare of Iraqi citizens.

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Well, well. This strikes me as a slap in the face of the stay-the-course hawk's argument about how bad it would be to "cut and run." The Iraqi government that we set up doesn't want us there. Furthermore, they, like myself, believe that many if not most of the insurgents have a legitimate right to fight US troops as an occupying force. The hawks no longer have an argument. There is no longer any believable rationale whatsoever behind our staying there. Zip, zilch, nada. It's time to get the hell out and let the chips fall where they may.

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