Posted on 11/30/2006 9:27:21 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
WASHINGTON -- With Iraq falling apart, it's getting lonely at the top for President Bush.
His hawkish neo-con advisers are deserting him. He had to fire Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The Democrats have won control of Congress. U.S. allies are angry at his Iraq policies.
And even Henry Kissinger -- one of Bush's foreign policy advisers and a key architect of the Vietnam debacle -- has decided Iraq is a can't-win situation. He earlier had told Bush, "The only exit strategy is victory."
Bush's father, former President George H. W. Bush, has come to his defense. It's Bush 41 rushing to rescue Bush 43.
It's widely assumed that when Bush named his father's close friend and confidante -- James Baker -- as co-chairman of a bipartisan 10-member Iraq Study Group, he was looking for a diplomatic retreat from the Iraqi dilemma. After all, Baker was secretary of state in the Bush 41 administration and knows his way around the Middle East. Both he and the senior Bush have hobnobbed together in the region representing the Carlyle Group, the privately owned conglomerate that sells weapons, among other items.
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This is unfortunate because the dire mess in Iraq demands bold action by the U.S. The real solution is a cakewalk out of Iraq tomorrow. The world would stand in shock and awe.
Idiot.
Yes. The courage of Neville Chamberlain, Jimmy Carter, and all of the weak-kneed fools and cowards that preceded and succeeded them. Fortunately for them, there have always been brave, realistic, and patriotic souls who have come forward to win the inevitable battles and wars which by necessity ensued.
I posted that with comment on the single poster....saying he was as big an idiot as the writer of the editorial...
I'll accept as an alternative theory the fact that the prefix 'neo' is used solely to describe Nazi's and Conservatives for the purpose of making the latter sound like they are associated with the former.
Neo-Conservatives are often neither New OR Conservative, discuss......
You forgot fat, ugly and old.
Thomas is a lecherous old crone, she has to be living a miserable existence.
I bet if she stepped out of her crusty old girdle, it would stand in shock and awe as well.
I don't see your comment there. Apparently you can only call the President and idiot in that newpaper. Figures!
Some liberals are giving up on the Iraq Study Group. They may have listened to President Bush today where he said we will not leave Iraq until the mission is complete and that there are no negotiation with Syria and Iran. In other words the President is telling the Iraq Study group to go and pound sand.
November 30, 2006
Does This Mean War?
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Someone at the Pentagon has let the cat out of the bag -- and apparently, it's a Persian. Citing "US officials", ABC News reported earlier today that the US has smoking-gun evidence that Iran has supplied the insurgents in Iraq with sophisticated weaponry used to attack American soldiers:
U.S. officials say they have found smoking-gun evidence of Iranian support for terrorists in Iraq: brand-new weapons fresh from Iranian factories. According to a senior defense official, coalition forces have recently seized Iranian-made weapons and munitions that bear manufacturing dates in 2006.This suggests, say the sources, that the material is going directly from Iranian factories to Shia militias, rather than taking a roundabout path through the black market. "There is no way this could be done without (Iranian) government approval," says a senior official.
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I find the timing of this revelation very interesting. We know the James Baker-led Iraq Study Group has prepared its recommendations, because they've been busy leaking them a week ahead of the deadline. We know that they will urge the Bush administration to reverse almost thirty years of foreign policy and engage Teheran in direct negotiations regarding security for Iraq. We also know that the Joint Chiefs have already decided to oppose the main thrusts of the ISG.
Now, suddenly, ABC News finds out that the Pentagon has found the Imam Label on insurgent weapons. Does it appear to anyone else that someone at the Department of Defense has decided to pre-empt the ISG and its call for negotiated surrender to state-sponsored terrorism?
The real solution is a cakewalk out of Iraq tomorrow. The world would stand in shock and awe....y'know, because she's an expert in foreign policy. What a useless waste of skin she is. And a lot of skin, for that matter.
It's Official: Iran Arming Iraqi Militias
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Iranian-made munitions found in Iraq include advanced IEDs designed to pierce armor and anti-tank weapons. U.S. intelligence believes the weapons have been supplied to Iraq's growing Shia militias from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, which is also believed to be training Iraqi militia fighters in Iran.
This has been known or suspected for a while, of course. The 2006 munitions may have just been captured, or this news may be part of an effort to influence public reaction to the soon-to-be-released Baker-Hamilton report. If we're going to "talk to Iran," as the Baker commission is expected to recommend, what, exactly, are we going to tell Ahmadinejad that will convince him that instead of fomenting and enabling violence in Iraq, he should help us stop it?
It's certainly a question we'll have in mind when we read the commission's report.
PAUL adds: So this means war, right?
SCOTT adds: Michael Ledeen writes in response to Paul's question:
The really big news in that story is that, for the first time (I think), American officials branded the Iranian regime as responsible for the weapons traffic. Up until now, they have always given the mullahs some wiggle room, you know, maybe 'rogue elements' are at work. But not this time.
Yes, it's war. A bit lopsided, to be sure; they've been attacking and killing Americans for 27 years. We keep offering goodies. It seems our commanders in the field have decided to blow the whistle on our feckless politicos.
JOHN responds: I wonder whether our commanders have decided to blow the whistle on the Baker-Hamilton commission, specifically.
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Fixed it, Helen.
once again the madeline albright look alike confirms that the libs mantra is losing is winning.
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