Oh, so that's why he was the Gipper's chief of staff. And Ed Meese, one of the other two Republicans on the ISG, he must be just as bad, or Reagan would never have made him his attorney general.
Talk about eating one's own.
So what? Ramsey Clark was LBJ's Attorney General and is now known as a wickedly evil anti-American fiend. LBJ was a committed anti-Communist and would never have appointed Clark knowing what we know today. Reagan would never have appointed Baker today knowing what we all know now.
And Ed Meese, one of the other two Republicans on the ISG, he must be just as bad,
Why? Why should I paint with a broad brush? I like Ed Meese and always have. Sources say the Israel-bashing portions of the "report" were added at the last moment, and insiders say those passages (such as the absurd "right of return") were not seen by the other participants such as Meese. The Jew-hating stuff has Baker's name written all over it. He is a despicable prick and an enemy agent on the Saudi payroll, as is Brent Scowcroft and Eagleberger. Traitors and villains all.
I would think that some of the folks here who want to follow McVain's nutty proposal to send even more troops would be a little shame-faced by their past record of predictions which include their failure to predict any of the following: the insurgency, the sectarian violence, the election of a Shi'ite fundementalist pro-Iranian regime, the failure for Iraqi oil "to pay for the war," the failure of the Iraqi's to greet us as liberators....and the list goes on and on. Instead, they seem positively cocky and proud of their mistakes....so much so that they want to make even more!