PARIS' PEACE PLAN - JIM BAKER'S HOT IRAQ IDEAS

NY Post ^ | December 7, 2006 | JOHN PODHORETZ

[Mo1]

THE profound quality of the suggestions offered by the Iraq Study Group - the panel headed by former Secretary of State James Baker that presented its report with such fanfare to the president yesterday morning - can be inferred from the following passage on page 60:

"RECOMMENDATION 19: The President and the leadership of his national security team should remain in close and frequent contact with the Iraqi leadership."

Truly, a grateful nation should fall on its knees and thank the benevolent Creator that the nine wise men and one woman who comprise the Iraq Study Group were willing to sacrifice themselves and come together so that such a recommendation could be placed before our leaders and the world.

The nation's capital hasn't seen such concentrated wisdom in one place since Paris Hilton dined alone at the Hooters on Connecticut Avenue.

After all, only genius approaching the level of Paris could have written this sentence: "The Support Group should consist of Iraq and all the states bordering Iraq . . . and, of course, Iraq itself."

Yes, that's some Support Group, what with Iraq and Iraq in it together to support, um, Iraq.

Also in the Support Group: Iran and Syria. Yes, having done their best to destroy the new Iraq, these two tyrannical nations are poised to perform a very, very constructive role in helping to get the new Iraq up on its own two footsies!

[BigSkyFreeper]

Having Iran and Syria asked to help out is where the ISG lost me.

[Mo1]

Yep! and extremely stupid idea

[patj]

This may be a stupid question at this late date, but who picked this alleged "study" group?

[Mo1]

My understanding it was Baker and Hamilton that picked the panel
It was Frank Wolf's idea for the study group

[BigSkyFreeper]

who picked this alleged "study" group?

Jim Baker and Lee Hamilton. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) suggested it purely for his own political purpose of getting re-elected to Congress.

[Carolinamom]

Committees don't win wars. These political fogies don't have a clue about what this war is all about.

[goldstategop]

Paris refers to Paris Hilton. Yes, the hotel heiress. Come to think of it, she's smarter than the skulls of full of mush boobs who sit on the Iraq Surrender Group. Why, if we just sing "kumbaya" with Syria, Iran and Al Qaeda, we will have peace and good will among men this season. But first, make sure the "Jews are f*cked good." Israel, you see, is what keeps things stirred up in the Middle East. Get the Jewish State out of the way and we will have peace at last, peace at last! I'm sure even Paris Hilton knows how stupid that sounds.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[Mo1]

Statement of Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) On the Creation of the Bi-Partisan Iraq Study Group, Which Evolved from his Idea for “Fresh Eyes on the Target

http://www.house.gov/wolf/news/2006/03-15FreshEyes.html

[Mo1]

No they don't ..

[patj]

Thanks, you guys. So this has even less reason to be taken seriously than the 911 commission.

[AmericaUnited]

Saying Iran and Syria can be 'constructive' is like saying that The Mob can be constructive in ending the small shop shakedowns, owner beatings, and store front bombings in some big city.

[goldstategop]

Its waste basket filler. The ideas are so ridiculous they are unworthy of a superpower.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[Mo1]

IMO .. this report is more of a joke then the 911 commission

What we have to worry about is the media running with it

As Sandra Day O'Connor told the reporter .. it's up to them to read the report and interrupted it to the public

[goldstategop]

Yeah and what will Mahmoud Ahmedinejad do for the Great Satan? Give up his nuclear bomb aspirations? Just because are going to play nice with the mullahs' Iran? James Baker and Lee Hamilton are even stupider than Jimmy Carter.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[TomGuy]

I would like to know how much "salary" these nimnuts deposited in their private bank accounts for their service.

I'm sure they didn't 'work' cheap.

[Mo1]

Well .. Wolf got Congress to appropriate $1 million for the project

[BigSkyFreeper]

Committees don't win wars. These political fogies don't have a clue about what this war is all about.

I can't think of a "blue ribbon panel" that actually solved a problem. I'm quite frankly getting sick and tired of seeing Lee Hamilton on my TV. He's an ineffective, spineless, mealy-mouthed, incompetant old beanbag.

[TomGuy]

A downloadable PDF of the full report is available at this link:

http://www.usip.org/isg/iraq_study_group_report/report/1206/index.html


FYI

[BigSkyFreeper]

Its waste basket filler. The ideas are so ridiculous they are unworthy of a superpower.

It plays right into the hands of the cut-and-run crowd.