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1 posted on 11/20/2006 8:39:08 AM PST by kellynla
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Will the Baker/Hamilton Commission get this war right?

I hope so...but I've got a bad feeling.


2 posted on 11/20/2006 8:41:49 AM PST by Valin (Rick Santorum 08)
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To: kellynla

How 'bout we just wait for the report before getting negative?


5 posted on 11/20/2006 8:48:34 AM PST by HelloooClareece (Support the CinC during WARTIME or get outta my way.)
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Why isn't the commission a military one, with some outside expert opinion brought in, instead of the other way around?

It's a war, we need the best military minds.


6 posted on 11/20/2006 8:52:12 AM PST by bordergal (There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of men bad enough for this treachery)
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To: kellynla
Bad premise. There is something that all games have in common... and it's the same in warfare:

There are winners and there are losers.

If you wish to be the winner, play like it.

8 posted on 11/20/2006 8:55:34 AM PST by pgyanke (Gay marriage does to real marriage what counterfeit money does to real money. - Hemogoblin)
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To: kellynla
Bad premise. There is something that all games have in common... and it's the same in warfare:

There are winners and there are losers.

If you wish to be the winner, play like it.

9 posted on 11/20/2006 8:55:37 AM PST by pgyanke (Gay marriage does to real marriage what counterfeit money does to real money. - Hemogoblin)
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To: kellynla

No, they will not get it right.


13 posted on 11/20/2006 9:06:44 AM PST by edsheppa
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No, they won't.

And they'll deny it's terrorism when some mook goes shaheed in the Bangor Mall.

Keep your powder dry, folks.

15 posted on 11/20/2006 9:20:36 AM PST by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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"A free Iran would most likely become an instant ally in the war against terror..."

I wish I could suppose this was true, but it seems far more likely that any government with wide popular support in Iran would be "Islamic", as a oil exporter fundamentally opposed to our long-term economic interests, and fundamentally opposed to current or likely foreseeable US policy on the Israeli - Palestinian confrontation.

So IMO unless we have both the means and the will to indefinitely occupy Iran and impose a regime more to our liking, Ladeen's vision - as it was in Iraq - is a pipe dream, and we would do better to start thinking about a realistic long-term policy for containment.

16 posted on 11/20/2006 9:23:14 AM PST by M. Dodge Thomas
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They should have set up a commission to study how to win the "War on Drugs" (now over 30 years old) or the "War on Poverty" (over 40 years old). Or maybe they should investigate an "Exit Plan" for getting our troops out of Korea (over 50 years deployed) or Germany/Italy/Japan (over 60 years deployed). May be they could use the "Exit Plan" that was used to get the troops out of the Philippines (only took a volcano and almost 100 years).
18 posted on 11/20/2006 10:14:37 AM PST by Trunk 71-74 (A god that needs man to carry out his dirty work is impotent!)
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Mr. Ledeen is a very, very smart man.

Sadly though I think this 'Commission' will give the President enough political cover to cut and run.

L

24 posted on 11/21/2006 3:46:56 AM PST by Lurker (Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.)
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To: kellynla

If 41 had done the job right in the first place, this trip would not be necessary.


27 posted on 12/07/2006 8:55:43 AM PST by sono (Ted Nugent For UN Ambassador)
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