Sen. Biden offered a plan earlier this year (despite the BS on this board that the Dems have no plan) that included an international conference as well as other components to address the growing sectarian violence.
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First, the plan calls for maintaining a unified Iraq by decentralizing it and giving Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis their own regions. (this is the most difficult and politically charged component of the plan) The central government would be left in charge of common interests, such as border security and the distribution of oil revenue.
Second, it would bind the Sunnis to the deal by guaranteeing them a proportionate share of oil revenue. Each group would have an incentive to maximize oil production, making oil the glue that binds the country together.
Third, the plan would create a massive jobs program while increasing reconstruction aid -- especially from the oil-rich Gulf states -- but tying it to the protection of minority rights.
Fourth, it would convene an international conference that would produce a regional nonaggression pact and create a Contact Group to enforce regional commitments.
Fifth, it would begin the phased redeployment of U.S. forces this year and withdraw most of them by the end of 2007, while maintaining a small follow-on force to keep the neighbors honest and to strike any concentration of terrorists.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...082301419.html
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Any international conference would require the involvement of the Arab League as well as a willingness of the Shia-dominated government in Iraq to be open to the involvement of the Sunni-dominated Arab League and the Kurds in Iraq to be open to the involvement of Turkey, both of which have a political stake in a successful outcome.