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Wednesday, December 06, 2006


Baker-Hamilton is in, and soon to grace the cover of Duh! magazine. Iraq is a mess:
Nearly four years, $400 billion and more than 2,900 U.S. deaths into a deeply unpopular war, violence is bad and getting worse, there is no guarantee of success and the consequences of failure are great, the panel of five Republicans and five Democrats said in a bleak accounting of U.S. and Iraqi shortcomings. The implications, they warned, are dire for terrorism, war in the Middle East and higher oil prices around the world.

It said the United States should find ways to pull back most of its combat forces by early 2008 and focus U.S. troops on training and supporting Iraqi units. The U.S. also should begin a "diplomatic offensive" by the end of the month and engage adversaries Iran and Syria in an effort to quell sectarian violence and shore up the fragile Iraqi government, the report said.
Wow, if that's the kind of criticism Bush (43) gets from Poppy's SecDef, there's no telling what some of his detractors will recommend that he'll totally ignore.

Read the full report (PDF) here.



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