LIVE THREAD; Iraq Study Group Releases Report

December 6, 2006

[Howlin]

Live on cable now...

[popdonnelly]

Other than talking to Iran and Syria, which suggests appeasement, the Commission hasn't recommended anything that we aren't doing already. But the MSM laps this up because it's done with the necessary handwringing and prophecies of doom.

[bybybill]

How can they have any credibility without any military presence on the committee?

[bobsunshine]

Ok, just turned on the "way-back" machine and set it for December 20, 1941. Coming in focus, ok. The Japan Study Group has just issued it's report and says we need to talk to China and Korea to help convince Japan to stop attacking us.

Ok back to real-time. So we've decided on how to carry out a war by committee. Glad to hear Baker say that the recommendations are "non-binding". The President has asked for this report to get ideas, and that's about it. I'm sure he will take them "under advisement".

Yea know, one think that bothers me is the way the media talks about losing the war. Hold on a minute, WE WON THE IRAQI WAR over three years ago. Saddam was toppled in 2003. Now we are fighting to help establish a democracy and fight the war on terror, globally.

The media is so out to get the President and our great military. It just makes me sick to listen to them. One option the study group should have recommended was to send all journalist to Iraq and let them stay there for awhile.

[Lucky9teen]

Who's idea was it, for this report?

[redgirlinabluestate]

Why is this report, which discusses major policy and strategy which could directly affect our wartime effort, in the public domain? Should be classified at the highest levels. In fact, we shouldnt even know it exists.

I completely agree. What is wrong with us? Why have we become so politically correct? Discussing our weaknesses in public only strengthens the enemy. For instance, yesterday, when Levin asked Gates whether he thought we were winning the war, I wish Gates had said, "With all due respect, Senator, that is a very delicate issue requiring a very complicated answer utilizing classified material. It would be better asked and answered in closed session. We have to realize that this war is not only being waged militarily and politically, but is also being waged psychologically in a propaganda war."

What national interest is served by such disclosures?

[Mo1]

I'm very worried for my country.. to the point of despair....we deserve everything our enemies are going to throw at us.

They are playing politics with this war

They don't get it .. and until they do .. we are all screwed

[dirtboy]

Fortunately we have a President who will just keep working no matter what these lamebrains say.

Plus, about the only silver lining in the Dem win last month was that they can no longer just snipe at and undermine Bush's Iraq policy without consequences to themselves. Since they now are part of the decision-making prcoess, they now have to do something constructive or get hammered. Which is why you don't hear much talk of an immediate pullback - to the contrary, as someone noted, Pelosi's henchhags are now talking about INCREASING the number of troops.

[NeoCaveman]

When are you going to quit being a sycophant?

[firewalk]

complete with a sideshow...

[Dog]

Come on...

[Miss Marple]

Well, I am going to save as much money as I can and withdraw into my garden come spring. I am going to grow vegetables instead of just flowers, review canning and freezing, and get ready for a lot of REALLY hard times.

Pfft on them all.

[SJackson]

I'd be tempted let the Kurds go their own way, if for no other reason then to pay the Turks back for the games they played with us in 2003.

I would too, the Kurds deserve our support. But don't forget, we're committed to Turkey's defence.

[popdonnelly]

"I am teetering on bitterness."

Don't become bitter. Stick to your guns. There's still work to be done.

[Names Ash Housewares]

"They are talking a bit about a united America---IMHO the war is over in a New York minute if the rats would support the President 100%"

Yes and other countries as well.
They are all in denial of the intense threat of islamo facism.

We must finish what we started, not compromise victory.
Or we can all look forward to a nuclear nightmare with these wackos on our front porches down the road.


Personally, we need less of this "study group" crap, and more of "What would Patton do?"

[justshutupandtakeit]

Come on be fair everyone knows the biggest problems in Iraq are Assessorization and Color Coordination.

[traditional1]

This whole thing is eerily reminiscent of Kerry testifying on War Crimes during the Viet Nam War, and demoralizing the troops.

If I had a family member who gave their life for the cause of America, I don't know how I could take this crap from these enemy-sympathizers!

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

the inside the beltway cocktail curcuit

They are, quite possibly, the strongest enemy this country has ever faced.

[roses of sharon]

The Pentagon report will be sold as "propaganda" by the MSM.

[NinoFan]

I asked the same darn question. It's unbelievable to me that such an incompetent and poor ex-justice with no knowledge of war would be invited to sit on such a panel. Just more evidence at what a sham this was from the very beginning.

[dirtboy]

How can they have any credibility without any military presence on the committee?

I don't think credibility is a significant criteria any longer in DC politics. After all, if you can have Jamie Goerlick on the 9-11 Commission, just about anything is possible.