[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

A decent report here,....surprising!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

A leftist editorial here:

Iraq Study Group won't rock the boat ~ ~ a Helen Thomas Editorial....

[Marine_Uncle]

The POTUS will stay the course as long as the IG allows him to. No one should make the mistake to think a majority of Iraqi are for us staying in their country. They continue to learn more why we are there. Their soldiers come home and tell family and neighbors how they are being trained. No one is stealing their oil, nor raping their women.
The L/MSM continue to protrait their loop sided views, using the criminal elements and low numbers of insurgents over all that get lucky on occasions to make things look like there not.
This POTUS knows the score. I do hope Maliki is taking all his items on the list seriously and we shall see some hard decisions made to back up what he claims the IG directives to put down the insurgency and sectarian violance.
At any rate. Thanks for the ping. Time to hit the rack.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks E for the ping. GWB is in the driver's seat for two more years, and knows it. The Dhimmicrats would face recall drives should they try any of their usual Stalinist show trial tactics (namely, attempted impeachment) and yet they know they can't change what's going on in Iraq short of steps that would destroy their chances in 2008.

The analysis was doubly damning

...because it showed just how low the NY Slimes will go to undermine US foreign policy and US interests, as well as undermining Republican (and only Republican) presidents.