KILLING U.S. SOLDIERS

Atrios notes that the GOP senators are all for the Iraqi government giving amnesty to insurgents who only killed coalition forces and the back-tracking from the Iraqis.

People seem to forget that ALL the Iraqis agreed that resisting the occupation was OK:


Iraqis say there should be troop timetable
By SALAH NASRAWI
Associated Press Writer
Nov 21, 2005 11:30 AM EST

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Leaders of Iraq's sharply divided Shiites, Kurds and Sunnis, seeking common ground for their political future together, agreed Monday there should be a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign troops, and that resistance was the right of all - but that acts of terror should be condemned.

The participants in Cairo agreed on "calling for the withdrawal of foreign troops according to a timetable, through putting in place an immediate national program to rebuild the armed forces ... control the borders and the security situation" and end terror attacks.

On Monday, Iraqi Interior Minister Bayan Jabr suggested U.S.-led forces should able to leave Iraq by the end of next year, saying the one-year extension of the mandate for multinational force in Iraq by the U.N. Security Council earlier this month could be the last.

"By mid next year we will be 75 percent done in building our forces and by the end of next year it will be fully ready," he told the Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera.

The conference's final statement also stated that "resistance is a legitimate right for all people" - a nod to Sunni Arab leaders who have sought to distinguish Iraqi insurgents they say are resisting the U.S. presence in Iraq from terrorism.