The US won't negotiate with terrorsts...but will "strategize" with them?

[Contrary1]

Unless the Chimp's numbers are down.

"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. military is joining forces with the State Department to prepare a new Iraq strategy that includes negotiating cease-fire and power-sharing agreements with some enemy combatants, U.S. officials said Wednesday.

A "joint campaign plan redesign team" is preparing the diplomatic and military strategy for Iraq, which is expected to be approved by the end of the month.

The team laying out the new course for how to proceed in the four-year-old war is led by Gen. David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker, the officials told CNN.

One element of the plan is to try to identify groups of people -- possibly including Sunni extremists and militia groups -- with whom U.S. officials feel they can do business, such as negotiating power-sharing and cease-fire agreements and granting economic aid, the sources said..."

So now they are insurgents again, instead of terrorists? :crazy:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/23/iraq.main/index.html

[dave_p]

1. "New course"?

It was Baker-Hamilton's recommendation 35 just under half a year ago.

We've had 520 US and probably something like 140,000 Iraqi dead since then.

Impeach these incompetents.

[baldguy]

2. Servants don't negotiate with their masters.