A blow to the left

[Gonz]

Poor George, every day his stock rises & the liberals just can't stand themselves.

WASHINGTON, May 14 - The Bush administration, struggling to cope with a recent intensification of insurgent violence in Iraq, has received signals from some radical Sunni Arab leaders that they would abandon fighting if the new Shiite majority government gave Sunnis a significant voice in the country's political evolution, administration officials said this week.

The officials said American contacts with what they called "rejectionist" elements among Sunni Arabs - the governing minority under Saddam Hussein, which has generated much of the insurgency, and largely boycotted January's elections - showed that many wanted to join in the political system, including the writing of a permanent constitution.

NY Times

Although, considering the source, it may be a prelude to a major Sunni offensive

 

[Gato_Solo]

So...the same people who rejected the idea of voting now use violence to get what the could've received by voting. And didn't the Shi'ite majority offer to share power with them? Smells like pure, unadulterated, fresh form the bull, bullshit to me.

 

[Gonz]

They are getting smacked down so hard they may have finally decided it was time to change their strategy.