House Republicans push for Iraq diplomacy

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House Republicans push for Iraq diplomacy
By Klaus Marre
June 07, 2007


Two House Republicans, both 2008 Democratic targets, are urging President Bush to step up diplomatic efforts to quell internal fighting in Iraq.

Noting that “current Iraqi efforts at national reconciliation have stalled,” Reps. Heather Wilson (N.M.) and Phil English (Pa.) said in a letter to Bush that such an initiative could be modeled after peace conferences that brought together Israel and Egypt at Camp David in 1978 and warring Balkan factions in Dayton, Ohio, in 1995.

English said the letter is meant to show the president “how strongly some of us in the House feel that a new diplomatic initiative is needed at the highest level to head off further sectarian violence in Iraq and avoid a collapse of order.”

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