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Monday, June 27, 2005
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I took a solid, if unfair beating for this Memorial Day post, which suggested: "That if we can credibly promise a just peace, our enemies will reject the Hitlers and Bin Ladens in favor of their own sons and daughters."In comments, I clarified that I wasn't suggesting peace talks with Hitler, but with promising just peace conditions to encourage the military leadership to oust Hitler.
Leaving all that aside, guess which peacenik hippie is offering peace terms to Iraqi insurgents.
No, not Sean Penn. Donald Rumsfeld:
Speaking on NBC's Meet The Press, Mr. Rumsfeld said no one should be surprised that U.S. and Iraqi officials want to exert influence on members of the insurgency, and that such contacts are common.
"They [contacts] go on all the time," he added. "Second, the Iraqis have a sovereign government. They will decide what their relationships with various elements of insurgents will be. We facilitate those [relationships] from time to time."
But Mr. Rumsfeld said no negotiations are taking place with hardened terrorist elements belonging to al-Qaida or those, as he put it, "with blood on their hands."
