The Iraqis take their government out for a spin. I hope they know what they are doing.

Just as the US debate over the democrats plans to cut and run, slice and jog or shave and walk, are ending, the Iraq government may be letting them off the hook with this new plan.

The Iraqi Government will announce a sweeping peace plan as early as tomorrow in a last-ditch effort to end the Sunni insurgency that has taken the country to the brink of civil war.

The 28-point package for reconciliation will offer resistance groups inclusion in the political process and an amnesty for their prisoners if they renounce violence and lay down their arms.

The Government will promise a finite, UN-approved timeline for the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Iraq; a halt to US operations against insurgent strongholds; an end to human rights violations, including those by coalition troops; and compensation for victims of attacks by terrorists or Iraqi and coalition forces.

If this plan works, fantastic. Bring our troops home if the Iraqis make peace with the Sunis and drive the foreign insurgency out of their country. I have my doubts. I imagine with US troops departing, the insurgency will be going into overdrive. The first full scale coordinated rocket and mortar attack on the new government inside the green zone will put a halt to the US withdrawal, at least in Baghdad.

I want to see more details and I want to hear from the US commanders in the field, but in the end this is their nation, the training wheels must come off sometime. I just hope when they fall, and they will, they are not heading down a steep hill at full speed.