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Did you not hear O'Connor?

Everything she said was spot on!

All she correctly said was that without public support, the effort in Iraq will be lost!

As for the Golan Heights, it has been on the table for years. The reason it has not happened is that the Israelis cannot get the value for it in the negotiations, much less find anyone who can be trusted to negotiate in good faith on the other side.

it is simply a statement of fact, but it does not change the reality or the complexity of the conflict. So it won't happen, but putting it on paper is not wrong.

I am amazed at the blind knee jerking going on here. It is reason we lost the election and why we cannot be trusted as Republicans.

There is nothing in this report that Bush or the Military generals will have a problem with, except for Iran and Syria's inclusion in a Iraq solution. It is all factual things that are either underway or coming down the road. It is a summary of Bush's current policy.

I have no idea why you see this as different.

I cannot believe that you refuse to see this for what is is - yet another attempt to undermine our President and lose the war.

I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on this one, because we're worlds apart in how we view this report.

I am amazed at the blind knee jerking going on here. It is reason we lost the election and why we cannot be trusted as Republicans.

Gawd, get a grip. History shows the dangers of appeasement of dishonest parties. The product of this study group is pure political depravity that will only encourage our opponents further - it will add to their notion (grounded in fact) that we lack the will to win a war and will eventually seek a way out, the consequences to our allies and those we have pledge to protect be damned.

I am not upset about the report, per se. I am upset at HOW the report was presented, and how it will be portrayed in the media.

If this is such a serious situation (as the study group said) then why were they all up there joking and laughing (which they were). It was totally inappropriate.

And to find out that Baker and Hamilton did a Libowitz photo spread for Vogue is just absolutely appalling.

CH, you and I usually agree on stuff, and as far as your assessment of most of the report, I will probably agree once I read it.

But the damage this commission did by the way they presented the report, and themselves, was just simply inexcusable.