Just what is keeping peace from coming to Iraq? Well according to them, we are!

The representatives from Iraq's Shiite and Sunni groups who held four-day talks in Finland last weekend pointed out that U.S. forces are an impediment to achieving peace in Iraq, Finnish daily "Helsingin Sanomat" reported on Wednesday.

The gathering was arranged by the Crisis Management Initiative (CMI) of former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari, and by the John W. McCormack Institution of the University of Massachusetts, which was represented in the talks by Professor Padraig O'Malley.

The Iraqi delegates taking part in the talks agreed on the need to get American forces out of the country as quickly as possible and they have set a "realistic timetable" for the withdrawal, Padraig O'Malley told "Helsingin Sanomat."

I would just love for this information to come up in the next Republican debate (which now apparently will include Fred Thompson), with the a follow up question of "why don't we just leave, if they see us as being a detriment to peace"?

And then we could wait through the long painful silence that follow right before they started throwing Republican talking points at it in an attempt to smother the question to death.

"If we leave they will follow us home".
"We are fighting them over there, so we don't have to fight them over here."
"These are the same people who attacked us on 9-11."
"Die embarrassing question, die!"