Posted on 11/29/2006 9:04:41 AM PST by ventanax5
An expert adviser to the Baker-Hamilton commission expects the 10-person panel to recommend that the Bush administration pressure Israel to make concessions in a gambit to entice Syria and Iran to a regional conference on Iraq.
The assessment was shared in a confidential memorandum — obtained yesterday by The New York Sun — to expert advisers to the commission from a former CIA station chief for Saudi Arabia, Raymond Close. Mr. Close is a member of the expert group advising the commission and was a strong advocate throughout the panel's deliberations for renewed American diplomacy with Iran and Syria. In the memo, Mr. Close shares his "personal predictions and expectations" for what the Iraq Study Group will recommend in its final report next month.
Mr. Close writes that he expects the study group to urge President Bush to convene a regional conference "to enlist the support of neighboring states in establishing stability in Iraq." Among the participants in the regional conference should be "all principal states of the region," including Iran, Syria, and Israel. The inclusion of Israel, according to Mr. Close, is crucial because it will provide the only leverage by which Iran and Syria can be enticed to help stabilize Iraq.
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Sum of Israel's fear. This is why the Israelis were opposed to the US going into Iraq in the first place.
I'm sorry I couldn't get past the very first sentence. This is ludicrous.
This article implies the U.S. will exert pressure for Israel to cede something. What is there to cede, if not more land?
I'm sickened already and Bonker's report isn't even out yet.
Leni
The same mendanacious a-holes who left the Iraqi Shiites to twist in the wind after Gulf War I now wish to do the same to the Israelis.
When Al-Qaeda in Afganistan commits 9/11, and Saddam develops WMD and associates with ant-U.S. Terrorists
Baker concludes Israel is the problem.
Dunce.
Buying into the myth of "stability" in the Middle East.
Pre-emptive surrender, not even going for the installment plan. Up front, all at once, no serious negotiations.
And that's the way of it, pilgrims.
Israel can give all the concessions all they want but it won't EVER be enough for the Islamic Slime Balls that run those countries around there.
This obviously means giving up the Golan Heights, Syria's price for "helping" us out in Iraq. It's a nonstarter as far as Israel is concerned.
This is ridiculous. Iraq is our baby, not Israel's.
Merely contemplating asking Israel to give is the height of audacity.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/197abanc.asp
An article on Appeasement
"The more they Murder us, The more we Give them
And the more we Give them, the more they Murder us
For Peace, of course"
Gary Cooperberg
Sometimes an Ugly Truth is No Match For a Beautiful Lie
This is out of a Joel Rosenberg novel!
Ping.
Translation:
We're weak in Iraq.
This panel of 10 scatter-brained elitist will be this Nation's Ribicon if it acts on their air-headed recommendations!
Shades of Neville Chamberlain, capitulation with our sworn enemy will place this Nation in a much worse situation than we are already in.
COUNT ON IT!!
This'll never happen.
This is INSANE! When does it stop?? Will it ever stop?? How much is enough??
Jim Baker Must Go!
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Force Israel to give up the Golan and the West Bank for the good of Iraq, makes sense. The leaks from the study group have been consistant on this point for months, and it's in line with the views of the Saud's attorney, Mr. Baker.
What a joke
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