Posted on 12/07/2006 2:39:25 AM PST by Mo1
THE profound quality of the suggestions offered by the Iraq Study Group - the panel headed by former Secretary of State James Baker that presented its report with such fanfare to the president yesterday morning - can be inferred from the following passage on page 60:
"RECOMMENDATION 19: The President and the leadership of his national security team should remain in close and frequent contact with the Iraqi leadership."
Truly, a grateful nation should fall on its knees and thank the benevolent Creator that the nine wise men and one woman who comprise the Iraq Study Group were willing to sacrifice themselves and come together so that such a recommendation could be placed before our leaders and the world.
The nation's capital hasn't seen such concentrated wisdom in one place since Paris Hilton dined alone at the Hooters on Connecticut Avenue.
After all, only genius approaching the level of Paris could have written this sentence: "The Support Group should consist of Iraq and all the states bordering Iraq . . . and, of course, Iraq itself."
Yes, that's some Support Group, what with Iraq and Iraq in it together to support, um, Iraq.
Also in the Support Group: Iran and Syria. Yes, having done their best to destroy the new Iraq, these two tyrannical nations are poised to perform a very, very constructive role in helping to get the new Iraq up on its own two footsies!
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Having Iran and Syria asked to help out is where the ISG lost me.
Yep! and extremely stupid idea
This may be a stupid question at this late date, but who picked this alleged "study" group?
My understanding it was Baker and Hamilton that picked the panel
It was Frank Wolf's idea for the study group
Jim Baker and Lee Hamilton. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) suggested it purely for his own political purpose of getting re-elected to Congress.
Committees don't win wars. These political fogies don't have a clue about what this war is all about.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Statement of Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) On the Creation of the Bi-Partisan Iraq Study Group, Which Evolved from his Idea for “Fresh Eyes on the Target
http://www.house.gov/wolf/news/2006/03-15FreshEyes.html
No they don't ..
Thanks, you guys. So this has even less reason to be taken seriously than the 911 commission.
Saying Iran and Syria can be 'constructive' is like saying that The Mob can be constructive in ending the small shop shakedowns, owner beatings, and store front bombings in some big city.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
I would like to know how much "salary" these nimnuts deposited in their private bank accounts for their service.
I'm sure they didn't 'work' cheap.
Well .. Wolf got Congress to appropriate $1 million for the project
I can't think of a "blue ribbon panel" that actually solved a problem. I'm quite frankly getting sick and tired of seeing Lee Hamilton on my TV. He's an ineffective, spineless, mealy-mouthed, incompetant old beanbag.
A downloadable PDF of the full report is available at this link:
http://www.usip.org/isg/iraq_study_group_report/report/1206/index.html
FYI
It plays right into the hands of the cut-and-run crowd.
Baker and Hamilton missed by one day making their report. December 7 was the day "that will live in infamy." Now, we have another "Day that will live in infamy" from this Committee of Fools.
" The ideas are so ridiculous they are unworthy of a superpower "
The good news is that the Islamists will perhaps drop their immediate plans to attack us -- why should they bother? We're no longer a serious threat to their ambitions of absolute control in the Middle East.
(How ironic that it would be on Pearl Harbor Day that this strategy - the same one the Japanese tried in 1941, and failed - should come to fruition..)
I wonder if the Iran/Syria idea was Panetta's. He's a fool too. Alan Simpson, who was on the panel, believes President Bush won't even implement that idea. President Bush did say there were some things in there he didn't think should be implemented in the first place.
The nation's capital hasn't seen such concentrated wisdom in one place since Paris Hilton dined alone at the Hooters on Connecticut Avenue.
This sounds like Ann Coulter.
It's Great.
Nuff said.
Unfortunately, we're losing the PR war.
I think it's up to Bush. Will he embrace his inner wimp and go along with the charade and kick the war with Iran down the road, like Clinton kicked the al Qaeda can down the road?
The lack of reality in the reality free zone of DC is shocking, even though I shouldn't be shocked by it. I'm just a salesman, I know Iran is determined to get the bomb. We can allow it or stop them. Iran is destabilizing Iraq with armed militias. Iran is destabilizing Lebanon/Israel with armed militias. Iran is destabilizing Palestine/Israel. Ah, gee guys, I think there's a pattern here.
Iran needs to learn that destabilization is a two-way street. We should take out the little thug, Baby Doc Assad first, which protects Lebanon, Israel and Palestine. Then tell the Iranians cut it out or else they're next. This needed to be started 3 years ago. Bush has done nothing. He's put the security of the entire country on success in Iraq alone, without looking at Iran. This is insanity. Can anyone explain this to me?
" Unfortunately, we're losing the PR war. "
I see that, according to the gushing I've seen/read this morning, Messrs Baker and Hamilton came skipping down the mountain carrying their stone tablets - and the Prez (and all of us other nasty warmongers) had darn well better get rid of that golden calf and start toeing the line.
And it's universal, folks... Those few small voices that try to pipe up about the emperor having no clothes are easily drowned out in the approving roar.
We (as a people and a country, not "we" as individuals) voted for "change", and the piper has arrived with the invoice. And after surcharges and taxes, the net amount due is staggering: We're going to stop being the United States of America (which was *such* a burden, anyway) and become more like, say, Sweden
Duh! We mst b the dummies that misted geting stuk in iraq.
The ISG was getting a great deal of attention, until yesterday morning. ;-`
'Group' and 'intelligence' are mutually exclusive words.
Please, everybody. Click on the link and read the whole article (three short pages). It sums up the situation perfectly.
The ideas are so ridiculous they are unworthy of a superpower.They are unworthy of a highschool history composition.
They are jumbled words of appeasement drooling from the minds of barely conscious cadavers.
The nation's capital hasn't seen such concentrated wisdom in one place since Paris Hilton dined alone at the Hooters on Connecticut Avenue.
I had to laugh at the part in bold. This study group has to be one of the stupidest things ever coming out of DC. Rush has it right, "The Iraq Surrender Group".
This is the equivalent of having the Baptist Church saying there is something wrong with the Catholic Church and getting five Lutheran Pastors and five atheists on a panel to find out what is wrong.
The problem is that the only time the Lutheran Pastors have ever been in a Catholic Church, may have been for a wedding, and the atheists never saw the inside of any Church.
Mark Steyn's response:
Of course, Syria “should” do this and Iran “should” do that and, if they were Sandra Day O’Connor, I’m sure they would. But they’re not. And the only specific strategic proposal is a linkage between Iraq and a “renewed and sustained commitment” to a “comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace” – which concedes the same ludicrous rationale that the Saudi King Abdullah and all the rest of them make: that one tiny ten-mile sliver of Jews is the reason why millions of Muslims from the Straits of Gibraltar to the Emirates are mired in dictatorships, failed economies and jihadist fever. For the Baker group to endorse this clapped out pan-Arabism is disgusting. An “Arab-Israeli peace”? What does that mean? What exactly is Israel doing to Iraq, or Tunisia, or Qatar, or any other Arabs except those in the “Palestinian territories”? To frame it in those terms is to adopt the pathologies of the enemy. Shame on Baker, Hamilton and all the rest.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1749570/posts
This is the equivalent of having the Baptist Church saying there is something wrong with the Catholic Church and getting five Lutheran Pastors and five atheists on a panel to find out what is wrong.Excellent.
I'm buying this issue today!
Maybe they can gather the cast of Cocoon and have a Cadavers for Peace March.
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I used that argument on some of the libs (all Catholics) I work with, and they were speechless when I told them that none of the members had ever been in the military.
After I blew their minds with that analogy, I added this little quip.
Another way to explain that "study group" is Apple wanting to fix some Microsoft flaws, and get five hillbillies and five rednecks who had never used a computer to fix the OS.
So a million dollars of MY TAX MONEY essentially funded the "United States Institute for Peace", allowing them to set up a nice web site and put together a non-profit organization that will now probably lobby for government grants and certainly will support left-leaning causes and undermine the United States whenever it can.
Thanks, Frank Wolf.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
The Iraq Senility Group has spoken.
You are correct. Political assassinations are required. We can win that game and the results would be substantial.
Adopting the pathology of the enemy is in vogue these days, even on FR.
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