Iran, Syria and US to attend Baghdad talks: Iraq (The gangs all here)

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http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2007/February/focusoniraq_February236.xml§ion=focusoniraq

Iran, Syria and US to attend Baghdad talks: Iraq
(Reuters)

27 February 2007



BAGHDAD - Officials from regional states including Iran and Syria will join US and British envoys at a meeting in Baghdad next month to seek ways to stabilise Iraq, the Iraqi foreign minister said on Tuesday.

The mid-March meeting would be a chance for Western and regional powers to try to bridge some of their differences over Iraq, Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said.

‘Our hope is that this will be an ice-breaking attempt for maybe holding other meetings in the future. We want Iraq, instead of being a divisive issue, to be a unifying issue,’ Zebari said by telephone from Denmark where he is on a visit.

In December, the bipartisan US Iraq Study Group issued a report on the Iraq war in which it recommended the United States hold direct talks with Damascus and Teheran to persuade them to help stem the violence in Iraq.

US President George W. Bush reacted coolly to that proposal. Bush has not ruled out a regional conference to help Iraq, involving Iran and Syria, but the White House has indicated Iraq would have to set it up.

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1. even the flip floppy WH!

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2. What a concept talking instead of fighting

Maybe if we had a Department of State that supported
this radical notion we could be out of Iraq by now.

But this might be a start to stopping this stupid war.