Posted on 12/07/2006 11:27:08 AM PST by Anti-Bubba182
WASHINGTON - The Iraq Study Group report delivered to President Bush yesterday contains 79 separate recommendations - but not one that explains how American forces can defeat the terrorist insurgents, only ways to bring the troops home.
Declaring the situation "grave and deteriorating," the high-powered commission proposed the United States talk directly to terror abettors Iran and Syria to get their cooperation, and commit to removing U.S. combat troops in early 2008.
In a major policy report presented to Bush and Congress, the panel also recommended taking a harder line with the fledgling Iraqi government by threatening to reduce or cut off military and financial support unless it does more to crack down on militia death squads.
Reaction to the much-anticipated report was swift:
* President Bush called it a "tough" assessment of U.S. involvement in Iraq and said he would treat all of its recommendations seriously, but he didn't publicly embrace any of the proposals.
* White House spokesman Tony Snow later rejected the call for America to have open dialogue with enemy Iran, saying that could happen only after the Islamic state halted uranium enrichment.
* Democrats in Congress heartily embraced the study, saying it offered Bush some good ideas, and put the burden on him to accept some of them.
* Republicans generally had a polite but noncommittal response.
* In Iraq, U.S. troops said they didn't believe that Baghdad's own forces were prepared yet to take over security, and questioned whether GIs could come home in 2008, as the report urged.
Meanwhile, as the report was being debated, 10 American troops were killed in Iraq in four separate attacks amid worsening violence......."
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Cicero's son, want to change your opinion about the old/new freeper divide?
Too bad there is no ISG made up of former military personnel with the charter of; "how to win in Iraq". Guess that would be too - - "old school".
The ISG might has well have consisted of Baker and his clients: The Saudi Royal Family.
Wow, imagine the lesson the terrorists/insurgents will take away from this.
Okay... you beat me. LOL
Mustafa Bakri, editor Al-Osboa, (D, Cairo)
{This is} "the end of America. ...America (is) now is in its weakest period."
Anwar el-Hawari, editor Al-Wafd, (D, Cairo)
"Bush confesses defeat in Iraq."
Joseph Samaha, editor Al-Akhbar, (D, Lebanon)
(This is a) "holocaust for American claims."
Abdel Moneim Said, Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic studies (D, Cairo)
"This report is a recognition of the limitation of American power"
Abu Baker, terrorist of Jeyshi Muhammad, and relative of Jim Baker (D, Iraq)
"This report just makes us stronger in our beliefs and reinforces our view"
Abu Ayman, terrorist leader of Islamic Jihad (D, Jenin):
"The report proves that this is the era of Islam and of jihad."
Restated:
Republican acquiesce to Holocaust, ask to be on last train.
I like this thread too:
James Baker's New Test In Diplomacy [Bush Spokesman: "Jim Baker can go back to his day job."]
It should be "cheese eating" surrender monkeys, like the French.
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I'm sorry, but I don't follow you.
Anyone want to admit they listened to NPR and explain in some depth about what he (Baker) actually said?
Margaret Thatcher - To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.
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