Ben Rhodes is a pretty sucky speach writer. I wouldn’t want to take credit for any of them.
I bet his novel is going to be another preachy mess.
Rhodes also helped draft policy recommendations for the 9/11 Commission and wrote large chunks of the Iraq Study Group report.
Ah...the beg and surrender report that Bush rejected...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Study_Group_Report
Military concerns
The report contains many recommendations concerning the continued usage of military forces to achieve the goals of the United States. Only five pages of the report address U.S. troop levels, however: “More than 30 pages of the report consist of biographies of commission members and lists of people they interviewed; we counted just five pages devoted to the matter of U.S. troop levels in Iraq. . . .”[13]
Increasing those levels was not considered in depth as it was not considered a viable option.
Panel members say they were not given a mandate to consider increasing the number of American troops in Iraq because their military briefers dismissed out of hand the premise that it was possible to increase the number of American troops in Iraq, on grounds that not enough were available.[13] The report recommends instead envisaging the removal of all U.S. troops from Iraq by 2008.[14]
Consistanly wrong...DEAD wrong...