Progress Marches On.

[ILOVEDNY]

Iraqi Sheik Offers To Take Fight to Bin Laden


WASHINGTON — The leader of the tribal confederation that has fought to expel Al Qaeda from most of Iraq's Anbar province is offering his men to help gin up a rebellion against Osama bin Laden's organization along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

In an interview, Sheik Ahmad al-Rishawi told The New York Sun that in April he prepared a 47-page study on Afghanistan and its tribes for the deputy chief of mission at the American embassy in Kabul, Christopher Dell. When asked if he would send military advisers to Afghanistan to assist American troops fighting there, he said: "I have no problem with this; if they ask me, I will do it."
http://www.nysun.com/foreign/help-against-bin-laden-is-proffered/79524/

[Surfing USA]

In Washington, Sheik Ahmad also met with some members of Congress. He said he told them that American soldiers should stay in Iraq for at least as long as it takes to rebuild Iraq's national army. The Democratic majority in Congress has tried and failed to mandate deadlines for the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq regardless of conditions on the ground.

"We have to rebuild a national Iraqi army, not built on sects, but the same way they built up the Anbar police," he said. "They must be well-armed, so they will be able to protect the country and all the American interests in the area. We also have to make a friendship treaty based on mutual respect between the two parties, and then the United States will be able to withdraw from Iraq, if they wish, and we will succeed in Iraq the same way America succeeded in Japan and Germany."I wonder how the presidential candidates would respond to the above quote. :confused:

[raoul duke]

I wonder how the presidential candidates would respond to the above quote. :confused:
I would hope they would cite just about every poll taken in Iraq, across almost every demographic, that shows that to be a decidedly minority opinion. I'll bet one of them does. The other will keep using the same tired rationales that have kept this war crime alive.