Yet another reason to beat these goofballs at the ballot box.
The idea of working with liberals is nonsense. The only way a rational man can do so is with a bat in one hand and a pistol in the other.
This ISG was a joke before the election when McCain was selling his soul to look like a “Maverick” and taking part with this joke of a committee.
It is still a joke.
* Raymond Close, listed on the Iraq Study Group’s Web site as a ‘freelance analyst,’ is actually a member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, which, in July 2003, called for Vice President Dick Cheney’s resignation for an alleged conspiracy to distort intelligence, which they said had been uncovered by none other than Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV. The following summer, Close posited that ‘Bush and the neocons’ had fabricated the charge ‘that the evil Iranian mullahs inspired and instigated the radical Shia Islamist insurgency.’ To Close, the problem was not Iranian training and supply of money and sophisticated explosives to terrorists, but rather neoconservatism.”-— source? via
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DECEMBER 2006 early : (ISG CO-CHAIRMEN JAMES BAKER & LEE HAMILTON POSE FOR MEN’S VOGUE MAGAZINE — see NUMBNUTS) “In the frenzied final week of the Iraq Study Group’s deliberations, co-chairmen James Baker and Lee Hamilton took time out to pose for a photo spread for a fashion magazine, Men’s Vogue. This might seem a dubious decision given the gravity of the moment and their self-appointed roles as the nation’s saviors. The “wise men” who counseled Lyndon Johnson during Vietnam and the members of the Kissinger Commission who tried to reshape Ronald Reagan’s Central American policies did not sit for Annie Leibovitz in the middle of their endeavors. Nor did they hire a mega-public relations firm to sell their recommendations (supposedly intended for the president) to the public at large, as Baker and Hamilton have done.” -——— Source: http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=25802
Vernon Jordan got caught trying to land Monica Lewinsky a plum gig at Revlon to keep her mouth shut; Chuck Robb had a sex scandal with former Miss Virginia Tai Collins and hung out at cocaine parties and listened in on illegally-recorded cell phone chats of a political rival. Neither Jordan nor Robb got indicted. As a result, both were put on the Iraq Study Group. Which probably makes this august body the most ethical and moral study group in history... -—— “Group seen cutting trees to make excellent bird cage lining,” by FR’s JohnHuang2