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For this we waited all these months?
Washington Times ^ | 12-08-06 | Wes Pruden

Posted on 12/08/2006 11:29:46 AM PST by JZelle

The report of the Iraq Study Group is not exactly a strategy for unconditional surrender, but it's what you get from an expensive corporation lawyer trained never to let conviction, purpose or principle get in the way of a settlement that will stay together at least until the lawyers cash their checks. It was all in a day's work for Jim Baker. Mr. Baker is a favorite target of the tabloids, inevitably portrayed as vain, pompous, arrogant and eager to settle scores. The New York Post couldn't wait to have a little clean fun, transposing the heads of Mr. Baker and his fellow conspirator-in-mischief, Lee Hamilton, onto the heads of a couple of simians and headlining it: "Surrender Monkeys."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: iraqstudygroup; iraqwar; jamesbaker; surrendermonkeys; surrendermonkies
"Mustafa Bakri, the editor of the Cairo tabloid al-Osboa, gleefully says the report signals "the end of America." "
1 posted on 12/08/2006 11:29:52 AM PST by JZelle
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To: JZelle

"it's what you get from an expensive corporation lawyer trained never to let conviction, purpose or principle get in the way of a settlement that will stay together at least until the lawyers cash their checks"


2 posted on 12/08/2006 11:47:54 AM PST by BenLurkin ("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
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Link is down.


3 posted on 12/08/2006 11:48:00 AM PST by Jack Black
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To: JZelle
John McCain said it plain: "I don't believe that a peace conference with people who are dedicated to your extinction has much short-term gain." Right on.

Bears repeating

4 posted on 12/08/2006 11:58:56 AM PST by rllngrk33 (The RATs and Media are the enemy.)
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To: JZelle

bttt


5 posted on 12/08/2006 12:04:25 PM PST by CDHart ("It's too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the b@#$%^&s."--Claire Wolfe)
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To: CDHart

Could you read it, or just the excerpt.


6 posted on 12/08/2006 12:10:41 PM PST by Jack Black
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I read the whole thing. Just clicked on the "read more at"

Carolyn

7 posted on 12/08/2006 12:12:12 PM PST by CDHart ("It's too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the b@#$%^&s."--Claire Wolfe)
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To: CDHart

Could you read it, or just the excerpt.


8 posted on 12/08/2006 12:12:15 PM PST by Jack Black
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To: Jack Black
I've already answered that question.

carolyn

9 posted on 12/08/2006 12:23:45 PM PST by CDHart ("It's too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the b@#$%^&s."--Claire Wolfe)
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To: Jack Black

Strange. I can't get to it on either my linux or windows box.


10 posted on 12/08/2006 12:28:00 PM PST by Jack Black
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