Posted on 12/06/2006 9:09:30 AM PST by Impeach98
Iraq Study Group Ripped - PING!
Iraq Study Group called "A Complete Failure" - PING!!
Well then. Who is surprised?
I agree with Melanie. What a shamnisty of a report.
PING - Thought you should see this.
I agree with Melanie. What a shamnisty of a report.
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Yes, it is a sham and dripping with politics. These clowns, somehow pretending to have some form of credibility in this matter, are anything but that --- credible, experienced, and as knowledgeable as our military commanders in Iraq...anything but that.
A TOTAL SHAM.
This is what happens when you team gullible repblicans with agenda driven dems.
It would be nice if people stop falling into liberal traps. The war ended twenty days after the invasion started with the cessation of any credible form of government within Iraq. One can not come up with new proposals to accomplish something that occurred years ago. Is there an entity composed of pre-invasion government for us to surrender to? No. Do they still exist to surrender to us? No. The war in Iraq was won on April 9th, 2003. We can't re-win a war already won. We can't lose a war already won. It's over with.
This group has done great things to support our troops in Iraq, I don't discount that. But on this one point, they are very much wrong. Not even the United Nations could muster any farce to cover up the military realities - the Iraqi representative left the UN mission on April 8th, 2003, as he no longer had a nation to represent.
“We take issue with the Report for the absurd suggestion that the two biggest state supporters of terrorism, Iran and Syria, will be helpful allies. Suggesting that they can be our friends carries the heavy stench of appeasement."
We have little choice. Bush/Rumsfeld decided not to control the borders (sound familiar?). Dealing with Syria is like dealing with a Mafia. Yelling at them to control their border, an embarassing habit the administration has thankfully desisted lately, was a joke.
Forget that the report is a joke, and offers no prescription for success.
These people are so consumed with their self-promotion of "how great we all were for being nice to one another" as if that has ANYTHING to do with winning the war on terrorism.
These people don't understand that the mission is to WIN THE WAR. If they aren't interested in figuring that out then what good are they?
Just when does it become time for FR to go back to staunch opposition to just about every aspect of the corrupt power structure in DC - from just about all the pinheads in both parties? I cannot recall a larger display of political depravity than what I have seen over the last few weeks.
AMEN!
ping for a concise summary of the Baker report
You may think there is no one to surrender to, but you do understand that if given the choice, Cindy Sheehan, and those on Capitol Hill who sympathize with her would happily surrender to Muqtada al Sadr or the current Al Qaeda in Iraq leader if it meant we could pull all U.S. Troops out of Iraq today.
Terrorist Assad: "It was not a failure for us or Iran.
Thank you, Brothers Baker and Hamilton.
We have won."
They lost all credibility when one of their recommendations was for the US to give Syria the Golan Heights, it's not ours to give away.
Yes, but unfortunately the powers that be are much more willing to listen to the likes of her than the likes of Free Republic these days.
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