BLACKFIVE: We don't need no stinkin' timetable!

Iraqis OK terror and ask for timetable, right?

A rip from Uncle Jimbo
Since the left has already begun trying to make this bad news, I will pipe all the way up and say WRONG! The progress made in the meetings in Cairo represents a concrete example of healthy political give and take between all the Iraqis. First a point I have seen some look at improperly, from the AP:

The communique condemned terrorism but was a clear acknowledgment of the Sunni position that insurgents should not be labeled as terrorists if they don't target innocent civilians or institutions that provide for the welfare of Iraqis."

Absolutely proper. The native Iraqis who have taken arms against the invaders of their country, and who limit their actions to targeting coalition or Iraqi security forces are not terrorists. They are guerrillas or insurgents, and unless they purposely kill innocents or assist the terrorists they should not be called otherwise. We don't have to agree with their aims, but we need to be fair in how we refer to different groups, we did invade their country and overthrow the government they worked for. What people have missed is that when the Sunni leaders insisted on this wording they also explicitly severed any support for the jihadis and the Baathist dead-enders who are terrorists, that is huge. Now we have split the much larger group of Sunnis who had legit worries about whether they could be fairly treated in a federal Iraq, from the scum who are beyond reprieve. It also will free the Sunnis who join the rest of the country to provide intel and eliminate the few remaining rat holes the killers hide in...

...I hope I am wrong and the hue and cry next summer is not how the voices of reason forced W to admit his folly and finally strategerize our exit from Iraq. This has been an ugly and divisive time where the intentions of almost everyone have been questioned and attributed to the basest motivations. The left wants us to lose and the right just lives to kill for oil. That boils down to ugliness and since contrary to popular propaganda, we are not in Iraq forever, the troops will come home and it damn well better be to cheering crowds waving flags in a well-earned victory parade. We can have our disagreements about questions as vital as going to war or not, but once we go, and certainly as we are finalizing victory, cries to leave under duress should fall on deaf ears, or better yet not fall at all.