Iraqi Powers Link Dialogue to Pullout Timetable

[liveoaktx]

http://www.islamonline.org/English/News/2005-05/07/article05.shtml

**Notice in the article that they debunk that argument that if the US isn't there, civil war will break out.

BAGHDAD, May 7, 2005 (IslamOnline.net) – The second anti-occupation conference in Iraq rejected on Saturday, May 7, any talks with the new government unless it clearly seeks a timetable for the withdrawal of the US-led occupation forces.

“We want an official and clear timetable for the withdrawal guaranteed by the United Nations and neutral international bodies,” said Harith Al-Dari, the Secretary General of the Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS) and a member of the conference’s secretariat-general.

“Only then, we will offer our hands to the government, otherwise we will carry on with our peaceful opposition until we achieve our goal,” he said, adding that the Iraqi people do not expect the withdrawal overnight.

“The Iraqi people are rejecting the US-led occupation,” stressed the leader of the AMS, the highest Sunni religious authority in Iraq.

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[jjmalonejr]

2. so iraq doesn't get pregnant?

[thebigidea]

3. and what job would that be? how do you define a "win?"

you don't even know, do you.

really easy to be gung ho for ill-defined goals when its not your blood being spilled all over the pavement.

[Zorra]

4. Looks like someone forgot to bring the flowers again.

I guess those flowers that the Iraqis were supposed to throw at the invading coalition are all being layed at the graves of family members killed during the occupation.