The war is over.....we won

Report: U.S. Secretly Met With Insurgents

Link to London Sunday Times article
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1669601_1,00.html

Quote from Sunday Times article

Time magazine reported in February that a meeting had taken place between one representative of the insurgents and two US military officials. Earlier this month it was claimed that indirect negotiations had begun through an intermediary.
The meetings described to The Sunday Times appear to have been the first formal talks between the two sides.
An interior ministry official in Baghdad said he was not aware of the two encounters but knew that the Pentagon and State Department had been anxious to talk to insurgent leaders for some time.
"The Americans want to expedite this matter of talks with the insurgents," said Dr Sabah Kathim, the ministry's senior spokesman.
"They initially thought they could win it through military operations and now they have come to realise that the military option will not provide them with the solution, so they are going for the political option as well."

I have not seen any evidence that Zargawi's outfit (AL QUEDA) has entered into any discussions but then they would never. If these are talks with actual Sunni insurgents, then that truly will be the end of the war because Al Queda will be isolated and much more vulnerable.

Anyone not agree with that appaisal?

If Zarqawi is excluded from the talks, they will not go far.

Quote from Sunday Times article

"After a discussion about Al-Qaeda activities, the Americans bluntly advised the Iraqis to "cease all support, logistics and cover for Zarqawi's group". Only if links to Al-Qaeda were severed would the Americans be ready to discuss Iraqi demands.
"Our response was that we will never abandon any Muslim who has come to our country to help us defend it," the commander said."