This guy was on the Baker-Hamilton Commission. When the report comes out, and calls for a cut-and-run, how will he be able to oppose it, given that he helped write it??? Bush has painted us into a corner.
Defeatist? Why? Because he told the truth? Are you suggesting he lie?
In which case, we may have 2 1/2 mores years of Rumsfeld :-). Maybe gates is a "Harriet Miers" nominee.
The wrong people have been thrown under the bus.
Bush himself should have taken the hit. Then at least we would have Cheney in the White House, Rummy still at DOD, Porter Goss at CIA, Ashcroft at DOJ, and John Bolton at UN. And someone a hell of a lot more conservative at State.
Don't you mean the Baker-Hamilton-Chamberlain Commission?
Unfortunately he painted himself AND us into a corner.
If we leave Iraq and the Ayatollahs are still in power in Iran and the Baathists are still in power in Syria, it will be WORSE than if we hadn't gone in there in the first place.
Bush's mistake was trying to "civlize" Iraq. We should have taken out Iran and Syria, then pulled out and left the Euroweenies or the U.N. to pick up the pieces.
Mark Levin said today (on his radio show) that it appears the report is not cut-and-run.