Reply #16: so, negotiate with the Baathists already

[LatinoSocialist]

They've had two years to do so, and there have been reports of envoys from the insurgency trying to broker such negotiations.

The U.S. doesn't want to surrender or negotiate with a weaker insurgency. Its a loss of face. That's all these warmongers with dick-size complex have in mind when they speak of the terrible horrors of withdrawing. "oh, that would embolden the terrorist, that would send the wrong message, then they would know we have small dicks, and we can't let that happen, etc." Bigger Dick foreign policy at work - George Carlin.

Let's get out. Let the chips fall where they may. Let the people of Iraq, who have existed for a thousand years, find their own balance, even if it means a civil war. When they get tired, they'll find a way to live. Staying the course is doing nothing. It just prolongs the status quo of 2-3 American deaths a day, and like 80 Iraqi deaths a day.