It sure looks like good news.....
It just doesn't make sense. Congress votes on surrender, and then the insurgents want to "talk."-- only days after Iran kidnaps British Marines and Sailors?
Leahy says that the White House opposed removal of the Patriot Act provision on US attorney.
THAT IS NOT TRUE!!!!
Because they know that the bulk of the fighting is being done by the Iraqi Security forces and those are not going away. Come what may the Democrat vote is political defeat not a military defeat. That and the fact that with Saddam dead they have no central leadership figure they can "restore" to power. So the Insurgency is splintering into it component factions.