Dear "Peace-Monger" Ron, again you are deliberately missing the point to avoid answering the question. To aid your ailing skills at comprehension I will give you a clue. The question regarding who you negotiate with is not Iraq specific so your:

" the "negotiating" you are talking of will have to wait until the "surge" is over"

as an answer is way off the mark.

Hypothetical situation, "Peace-Monger" Ron, you have been elected President of the USA and are now correcting all the supposed ills of the previous regime, you have withdrawn your troops from Iraq and from Afghanistan and from anywhere else that you have a mind to. Now how do you end the "War on Terror"? Who do you negotiate with? What are you prepared to compromise on? Remembering of course that those terrorists put your nation in their cross-hairs almost twenty years ago, i.e. long before GWB was elected, and long before the US involvement in Afghanistan and in Iraq.