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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: coug who wrote (93021)	1/9/2005 8:39:04 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Well of course there are more important and tragic things happening in the world than you guys getting snowed in, but I can't think of horrible things all the time. I just get mentally fatigued! How deep is the snow there, anyway? The war in Iraq was definitely unnecessary. I agree with you. I don't know if you have had time today to read about how we are thinking of using death squads in Iraq and the surrounding countries to kill all the insurgents, or how the Sunnis are proposing that they will participate in the upcoming election after all if the U.S. agrees to a timetable for leaving Iraq that the U.N. would enforce. Here's the article about the Sunnis. I doubt that Bush will go along, but it certainly sounds like a face-saving way out for our troops: Sunni Group Asks U.S. for Timetable Sunday, January 09, 2005 PHOTOS VIDEO Click image to enlarge STORIES BACKGROUND •U.S. Troops Retaliate After Attack, Kill 5•U.S. Drops Bomb on Wrong Target in Iraq•Three Iraqi Officials Abducted•Mubarak: All Iraqis Must Participate in Vote•GI Gets 6 Months in Drowning Case•U.S., Iraqi Officials Fear 'Spectacular' Attacks•Ex-General Tapped to Review Iraq•Iraq Drowning Case Wraps Up•Jury Seated in Graner Abuse Trial•Army Mulls Longer Reservist Tours•No Sign of Missing Reporter in Iraq•Raw Data: Attacks on U.S. Targets•French Reporter in Iraq Missing•Accused Marine Deserter Vanishes Again•Marine Killed in Iraq's Al Anbar Province•Bodies of 18 Young Iraqis Found BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq's most influential Sunni (search) group will abandon its call for a boycott of Jan. 30 elections if the United States gives a timetable for withdrawing multinational forces, a spokesman for the group said Sunday. Members of the powerful Association of Muslim Scholars (search) relayed their request to a senior U.S. embassy official at a meeting Saturday, the Sunni official said on condition of anonymity. The meeting was confirmed Saturday by U.S. Embassy spokesman Bob Callahan, who said an unnamed senior embassy official in Iraq met with leading association members in an effort to persuade them to participate in the landmark election for a constitutional assembly. Callahan described the meeting as an "exchange of views" but would not elaborate. He said U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte was not present. It is extremely unlikely the United States would consider giving a timetable for a withdrawal. In the election -- the first democratic vote in Iraq since the country was formed in 1932 -- the Sunnis are certain to lose their dominance to the Shiites, who comprise 60 percent of Iraq's 26 million people. foxnews.com