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2006-10-26 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by ed 2006-10-26 07:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I'm sure there's a part that recommends buttf*cking Israel

Posted by gromgoru 2006-10-26 08:10|| 2006-10-26 08:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Baker has received the mission statement from his Saudi masters. Anything this dick produces should be thrown out

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-10-26 08:23|| 2006-10-26 08:23|| Front Page Top

#3 There is concern gromgoru. I am concerned the conclusions from this panel will come first and the discussion later. Hope that decisions are not being made without Israel being at the table. Israel is our only friend in this area. I don't think you can make agreements with Syria or Iran. Syria and Iran have their long-term agendas and they look nothing like the Wests'.

Iraq Study Group Members

Group members include:

Individuals

James A. Baker III, Co-Chair
Lee H. Hamilton, Co-Chair; former Democrat Congressman from Indiana
Robert M. Gates, former CIA director
Vernon Jordan, lawyer and friend of President Bill Clinton
Edwin Meese III, attorney general under President Ronald Reagan
Sandra Day O'Connor, retired Supreme Court Justice
Leon E. Panetta, former chief of staff to Clinton
William J. Perry, secretary of defense under Clinton
Charles Robb, former Republican senator from Virginia
Alan Simpson, former Republican senator from Wyoming

Think Tanks

Center for Strategic and International Studies
Center for the Study of the Presidency
James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy
United States Institute of Peace

Posted by JohnQC 2006-10-26 08:25|| 2006-10-26 08:25|| Front Page Top

#4 So who appointed these hacks?

Posted by Bobby 2006-10-26 08:28|| 2006-10-26 08:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Baker was a bad choice for the commission, but not for the reasons previously cited.

Baker has 'skin in the game' because he is the one who advised Bush 41 not to go after Saddam in the aftermath of Gulf War I.

He has gained high praise from the MSM for his decision back then, and represents a great narrative for the loony left. Here's a Bush family insider who, according to them 'made the right decision' back in 1991.

Posted by Captain America 2006-10-26 12:46|| 2006-10-26 12:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Ed Meese is a stand-up guy, as is Chuck Robb, and, to some extent Gates.

The rest are known political hacks analogous to The 911 Commission

Posted by Captain America 2006-10-26 12:49|| 2006-10-26 12:49|| Front Page Top

#7 Oh, good. Vernon Jordan's there. When things get boring, he can start one of his fascinating discussions about pussy.
I hear that's one of the big reasons Clinton kept him around...

Posted by tu3031 2006-10-26 12:51|| 2006-10-26 12:51|| Front Page Top

#8 What are the chances that ANY recommendations coming out of this commission won't dishonor every American soldier killed, every American soldier maimed, every American soldier jailed in this war?

Sigh. Wish the moderator would put up the graphic of the soldiers strung up on the bridge from the early days of the Iraq War. It would be useful to keep it in mind when we start talking about compromise with "insurgents".

Posted by Jules 2006-10-26 13:03|| 2006-10-26 13:03|| Front Page Top

#9 I hope Ed Meese still has the balls to tell us how corrupt the panel really is. I look forward to his indictment.

Posted by wxjames 2006-10-26 13:07|| 2006-10-26 13:07|| Front Page Top

#10 History tells us he'll know it when he sees it.

Posted by .com 2006-10-26 13:12|| 2006-10-26 13:12|| Front Page Top

#11 James Stacked Commission

...but, what else do you do with dead wood?

Posted by Captain America 2006-10-26 18:10|| 2006-10-26 18:10|| Front Page Top

#12 George Mitchell must be busy cashing in on his alleged integrity...again.

Posted by tu3031 2006-10-26 21:26|| 2006-10-26 21:26|| Front Page Top

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