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[Theabsurdreport.com] The Absurd Report - “The Absurd Report”¦chasing liberals like ...: The Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group (ISG) is turning into a parody of .that these sages would produce some brilliant, original answer to the Iraq .
[Seaspook.blogspot.com] Seaspook's Rants: The Baker Study Group aka The Dork Commission: ...after nine months of deliberation and an unprecedented build-up of expectations that these sages would produce some brilliant, original answer to the Iraq conundrum, the study group's recommendations turn out to be a pallid and muddled reiteration of what most Democrats, many Republicans, and even Donald Rumsfeld and senior military officials have been saying for almost two years. Thus, according to at least six separate commission sources sent out to pre-spin the press, the Baker-Hamilton report will call for a gradual and partial withdrawal of American forces in Iraq, to begin at a time unspecified and to be completed by a time unspecified.
[Taylormarsh.com] Democrat Taylor Marsh Blogs Politics: Despite the grotesque squawking by the whining whiners who whine that are the dead enders of the conservative culture of professional victimhood maybe that civil war thing can be settled now that even former Secretary of State Colin Powell is saying what is obvious to all but the soon to be out of work staffers and red state blockheads. These people are so unoriginal and trite, I am sure that they are gearing up for the annual ‘Liberal War on Christmas’ PR campaign to distract and divide which is customary for the chronically bitter authoritarians who are so miserable in their own pathetic little lives that they seek to suck the joy out of the holiday season with their in store activism and crybaby tirades.
[Huffingtonpost.com] The Blog | Harry Shearer: Iraq: the Timeline is Here | The ...: No politician seeking re-election in 2008 can ignore this year's returns, and the lesson drawn from it: the voters have had it with the Iraq war. You can argue the lack of wisdom of precipitous withdrawal (I'd think you were wrong, but what do I know?), but you are arguing with an electorate's emotional decision, every bit as daunting a task as it was for war opponents to argue against the electorate's emotional decision in the wake of 9/11 to go along with the war project.
[Dadmanly.blogspot.com] Dadmanly: of the Contact Group must be marshaled to 1) build on Syria’s (still not convincing enough) efforts to make the Iraqi-Syrian border less porous, 2) continue to assist Riyadh in minimizing insurgent flow from Saudi Arabia into Iraq, 3) bolstering via diplomatic and other efforts countries facing growing religious radicalism from within like Jordan and, less noticed, Syria, 4) engage Iran full-bore on the Iraq agenda (to include as necessary other issues of mutual concern on a discrete case by case basis) to assure that the most radical elements in Teheran are dissuaded from providing arms and materiel to the worst of the Shi’a militias (lately groups splintering away from Moktada-al-Sadr), 5) dialogue more closely with Turkey to assure that her vital interests are not being imperiled by Kurdish resurgence, and 6) get Arab countries more involved generally with the situation in Iraq (greater Arab influence, in terms of bolstering the Sunni position, might well help serve to contain some of Iran’s growing influence, while also perhaps reducing the appeal of the ‘alliance of convenience’ between Syria and Iran, the former 70% Sunni, the latter a predominately Shi’a country).
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