This UPI report from 2000 quotes conservatives deriding a Clintonian measure. The concept was to train Iraqi opposition in the art of political compromise. Given the current situation in Iraq, where presumably the USA does not want a theocracy to rise from the current flux, perhaps encouraging the deal-making aspect of the process of democratic governance wasn't such waste of money as the critics thought.
The latest example is a workshop proposed by the Conflict Management Group, a nonprofit offshoot of Harvard Negotiation Project at Harvard Law School... "To identify, diagnose, and enhance the ability of the Iraqi opposition parties, and the individuals within the parties, to discuss, design, and facilitate intra- and inter-organization dialogue, cooperation, and problem solving."Translation: Pull Iraqi resistance fighters out of the field, bring them to Harvard, and teach them how to get along.
It's a bit late to pull them out of the field now.