What can I say -- when the Democrats want the US military to cut-&-run faster than the terrorists do, that should say something about their level of concern for US security.

Eleven Sunni insurgent groups have offered to halt attacks on the U.S.-led military if the Iraqi government and President Bush set a two-year timetable for withdrawing all foreign troops from the country, insurgent and government officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

The demand is part of a broad offer from the groups, who operate north of Baghdad in the heavily Sunni Arab provinces of Salahuddin and Diyala. Although much of the fighting has been to the west, those provinces have become increasingly violent and the attacks there have regularly crippled oil and commerce routes.

The groups do not include the powerful Islamic Army in Iraq, Muhammad Army and the Mujahedeen Shura Council, the umbrella label for eight militant groups including al-Qaida in Iraq. But the new offer comes at a time when Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government is reaching out to militant Sunnis, including a new amnesty plan for insurgent fighters.

Now what this means is that the terrorists killing American soldiers and Iraqi civilians will give the US until mid 2008 to get out -- but every Democrat plan has American forces leaving Iraq (without completing the mission) by Secember 2007 or sooner.

That is certainly some contrast -- the enemy supports a longer period for withdrawal than the (dis)loyal opposition in our own Congress.

MORE AT Decision '08, Independent Sources

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