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The Foreign Ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to disclose the information, said the talks will be the first of 10 such meetings to take place in the Iraqi capital. Iran was the venue for the last meeting in July.
Along with Iran and Syria, Iraq has invited Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Turkey to the discussions. The Arab League, Organization of Islamic Conference and the United Nations also have been asked to attend, the official said.
The United States and the Iraqi government have accused Syria of allowing foreign fighters to cross into Iraq and fight coalition and Iraqi forces. The U.S. has accused Iran of giving support to Shiite militias.
Both countries deny the charges.
CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer recently interviewed Syria's vice president (read more here), asking him about the role his country might play — whether or not the U.S. likes it — in stabilizing Iraq.
Vice President Farouk al Shara would not confirm or deny a meeting in Syria, with the approval of his government, of about 200 senior Baathists and militia members from Iraq to discuss laying down arms to earn a chair at the negotiating table.
Thursday, the official Syrian Arab News Agency reported Syrian President Bashar Assad had stressed his country's eagerness to promote Iraq's security, stability and territorial unity during a meeting with Sheik Harith al-Dhari, head of the powerful Sunni Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq.
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See all 159 Comments1 : the art and practice of conducting negotiations between nations
2 : skill in handling affairs without arousing hostility
Bush/Cheney/Rice obviously have never heard of the term.
The N. Korea situation has basically been outsourced to China.
The Israeli-Palestinian situation has basically been outsourced to the E.U.
And Iraq is accepting the outsourcing of their own situation.
Why do we even have a State Department? It is certainly not used by this administration. For all intents and purposes, it was boarded up in January, 2001.
Posted by grumpas at 09:51 AM : Feb 01, 2007
The law you're calling for already exists, grumpas. The constitution grants the power for declaring war to the Congress and not the president for this very reason.
In the case of Iraq, the administration falsified intelligence to get the Congress to provide the authorization.
The law only is as good as those who practice it.
What's up with you Christians? You feel you have a right to judge everyone by your own belief set, eh?
Save your preaching (and you judgmentalism) for church, preacherman.
Posted by singinrick at 11:10 AM : Feb 01, 2007
A distinction without a difference, preacherman.
Let's talk again when you have some facts. Save the faith for church.
I'll leave it at that. Nothing else needs to be said.
Have a good day.
Posted by singinrick
ARE YOU SO SHALLOW TO THINK THAT PEOPLE WHO DO NOT SHARE YOUR VIEWS ARE NOT CHRISTIAN? I STAND BY EVERYTHING I SAID, AND BY THE WAY, THE BIBLE DOES NOT SAY "THOU SHALT NOT TAKE BUSH'S NAME IN VAIN."
It's all in the scripture.
Goodbye exusmcsgt.
Commense your Christian hating.
Posted by singinrick
WHO MOCKED THE WORD OF GOD?? YOU'RE VERY CONFUSED.
You're fed up? You're a Christian, right? Imagine how we atheists fell about 'em!
Posted by exusmcsgt
WHAT AMERICA IS ABOUT:
Everyone has the RIGHT to believe whatever they choose. NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT to force their beliefs on another.
The so-called 'religious right' is nothing more than a bunch of greedy neocons attempting to steer everyone to their path with intimidation.
Jesus IS a liberal.
Posted by singinrick
WHAT A HYPOCRIT!!
I'll tell you something, my fine feathered friend, we have heard as much deceit from you as from any other neocon here.
Pal, you don't speak out for the Lord, you use scripture to further the neocon agenda.
JESUS IS A LIBERAL!
Kick this hypocrit's butt quite hard, then he'll leave you alone. Incredible how this sickeninrick can be such hypocrit claiming to be a pro-war (whoever is the ennemy, if any...) and at the same time talking of Pacifist J-Christ who was against any form of violence.
Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson will say the same thing at the same time they are reaching into the pockets of the poor and uneducated. Just because you quote scripture doesn't mean you are right or holy. Some of the most evil men on earth professed to be 'christians'. Being a parrot does not equate to being right or holy.
Posted by grazinggoat
That what I am saying, and if anyone has a right to 'rebuke' (as he says) anyone, it is those believers who hear someone like him in his glorious robes of piety using scripture to justify the very things that Jesus came to teach against.
Posted by singinrick at 12:20 PM : Feb 01, 2007
Who asked you to?
If I wanted a dose of that c r a p I'd go to church, not to a news site.
Posted by singinrick at 12:43 PM : Feb 01, 2007
I'd say that depends on whose posts we're discussing. In your case, the assessment certainly applies.
Go sit your a$$ in a pew.
Because I reject the drivel of self-sanctimonious fairy tale believers such as yourself does not make me hateful as you would wish to portray me.
This is not church you idiot. This is a news site, and we are here for information not preaching.
republican 4517 up, 2223 down
An individual who believes that the white male Christian God should be the only object of worship on the planet, that power and wealth should remain in the hands of 1% of the world's population while the remaining 99% starve, that health care should be privatized so the poor can't afford basic medication, that a rape victim living on welfare should be forced to care for a baby she didn't even ask for, and that America is the only real country on Earth while all those other countries they read about are just fakes invented by communists...oh wait, it's terrorists now, isn't it?
I'm sure that you fantacise as being a candle in the darkness to all of us here.
In actuality, you come off as a simpleton who never outgrew the childish need to believe in fairy tales and have no clue as to where and when to express that state.
God Bless.
Posted by singinrick
You're just weird man. I don't know what church you go to but they sure have you confused. You remind me of the years that I struggled with my x-wife trying to explain to her that the Jehovah Witnesses were nuts. Once they get you brain-washed, you're pretty much done. They like to quote scriptures too.
I never understood the motive for the ancient practice of stoning perviously...it was surely fomented by loud mouthed Christians who never knew when to shut up about their fairy tales.
I don't read fiction.
You have proof for that statement independent of the Bible itself?
Of course you don't.
As opposed to stoning in your case, I'd have opted for the lion treatment.
Shut up with the preaching already. This board is about diplomacy, not redemption.
Go to icanttakereality.com.
Does your bible tell you to beware of false teachers? Do you honestly believe that attacking a country that was no threat to us and and bringing about the deaths of tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands of the citizens) is something Jesus would condone? If you honestly believe that what our corrupt administration has done is just and right, all the scripture quoting... all the piety in the world can't help you. You're going to hell.
11"Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. 12Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Posted by singinrick
-Do you know what is persecution?. You have your home, your bread on the table, your burrrping pepsi everyday...
You know what is persecution? Do you? Got to India, Go to Pakistan, Go to Central and South America, Go to Middle-East, Bengladesh. You will see what is persecution you fat a$$, you'll see what is misery, and poverty...
sickeningrick. Stop sickening us with those hypocrit words that mean no sens in USA.
Go to those places where the real people are fighting their way to obtain a government representing them, against the well US-supported regimes in place.
Or maybe you can go to New-Orleans where it took more than a month before any form of help from the Central GOP government found its way there after Katerina hit the place hard (pretty hard).
I'm betting 10 to 1 that you pegged rick.....
Posted by singinrick at 01:02 PM : Feb 01, 2007
I, for one, would like to see you collect your reward post-haste.
Posted by exusmcsgt
LOL
And, Rick, don't attack me for enjoying that. It's called humor.
There is apparently no guidance in the Bible regarding humor, bro.
Rick's entire existence is found between the pages of an ideological "how-to" manual.
You have proof for that statement independent of the Bible itself?
Of course you don't.
Posted by exusmcsgt at 01:08 PM : Feb 01, 2007
Of couse Singinrick has proof, it's called Faith, and the answers of prayers, and the Dead Sea Scrolls, its called step outside and look at all the beauty around you... There is no way something as beautiful as the outdoors just evolved... God created that... Faith is all you need to believe in God, and it makes you feel so much happier about everything... God Rocks!!! He isn't a Fairy tale, people only think that because they don't have Faith and their lost... I've been reading about what Singinrick has said on here, and he is right on... Oh and Dallison7 your the one that goes to a weird church... How can you call yourself a good Christian, and then cuss your head off on the board... A Christian is supposed to walk like Jesus did, thats why when you get saved you try watch your language, you feel guilty about things, you stay away from doing and being around sinful things... Christ was perfect, and to try to walk in Christ's footsteps, we need to change from our sinful ways... Its in the Bible... Well I need to go finish eating my lunch... God Bless all of you! Oh and God Bless America... Love!!!
Posted by childofGod28 at 01:25 PM : Feb 01, 2007
Geez...another moron who doesn't understand the language.
Mirriam-Webster defines "faith" as:
"firm belief in something for which there is no proof"
So your proof is "something for which there is no proof."
Wnat to buy a bridge?
And for your edification, as you are obviously ignorant of the definition of "proof" as well, here it is:
"the cogency of evidence that compels acceptance by the mind of a truth or a fact"
What do you think of this sickeningrick? Here's the link.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/01/world/main2420546.shtml
Bubba Dubya and Osama both claim to have hotlines to God and have His blessings as well.
Kind of makes you think God is a bit confused here, don't you think?
childofgod and singingrick probably sing "Onward Christian Soldiers" as they post, bro.
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