This will be depressing for terrorists and, unfortunately, our Democrats as well:

BAGHDAD, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Sunni tribal leaders who have vowed to drive al Qaeda out of Iraq's most restive province met the Shi'ite premier on Wednesday, marking what Washington hopes will be a breakthrough alliance against militants.

Sattar al-Buzayi, a Sunni sheikh from Anbar province who has emerged in recent weeks as a leader of a tribal alliance against Osama bin Laden's followers, said he and about 15 other sheikhs had offered their cooperation to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

"We agreed to cooperate," Buzayi told Reuters. "We haven't agreed to anything specific, but we agreed to cooperate."

Maliki's office issued a statement praising the chiefs for their committment to fighting the militants.

"This is admired and respected by all Iraqis. We are fully prepared to back your efforts," the prime minister said.

In the end, this is what is needed to finish off the terrorists in Iraq - we've made it so that it is impossible for the terrorists to win in Iraq, but in order to completely crush the terrorists, it will take the active cooperation of all of the people of Iraq. It could be that these Sunni leaders finally realise that their future lies in a united and democratic Iraq, and its time to get rid of the al-Qaeda psychopaths.

This will not be easy - there is age-long bad blood between Shia and Sunni, especially in Iraq where they've long lived so close together and continuously rubbed each other the wrong way. But this is a hopeful sign, and I'm encouraged by it.

Posted by Mark Noonan at September 28, 2006 02:55 AM

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Poor defeatocrats, just can't catch a break!

This will not be easy

The worthwhile things never are. Cutting and running is easy, victory is hard but well worth the cost.

Posted by: Bob Arctor at September 28, 2006 03:06 AM

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I don't find this depressing at all. This is some of the best news to come out of Iraq in a long time.

Posted by: Tom Shipley at September 28, 2006 08:40 AM

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Tom, you've been posting here for what -- around a year or so? That's one of the very few positive things I seen you say in all that time. Dwelling on all negative all of the time does tend to wear on one's soul.

Posted by: Retired Spook at September 28, 2006 09:36 AM

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