Will Bush regret it?

The Sunni Mujahideen Shura Council of Iraq has offered the U.S. forces safe withdrawal from Iraq within a month. The U.S. has two weeks to reply to the offer. Abu Omar al-Baghdadi added: “Obey our orders or regret it”.

Bush will of course reject it, because he doesn't talk to 'terrorists'. The war, the occupation, the insurgency, the slaughter and the bloodletting will continue.

After tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands more have died, in the end the U.S. will still be defeated. And everybody will regret the U.S. didn't get out earlier. In March 2003, peace loving people told Bush not to invade, and look what a mess he made. Now they tell him to get out, and he won't listen.

Republican Senator Gordon Smith, who initially voted for the war and now realizes his mistake, says the U.S. has the choice between 'cutting and running' and 'cutting and walking'. The second option involves the expenditure of more money and lives.

Maybe Bush will not regret it, but everybody else will.