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Thursday, December 07, 2006

Why the Iraq Study Group Report is Discredited

The report of the Iraq Study Group (known on The Liberty Sphere as 'the Baker gang') was made public this morning. Talk radio, television news channels, and bloggers have had a feeding frenzy all day as pundits and news watchers weigh in on the issues raised by the report.

I will not attempt a thorough, point by point analysis of the Baker gang report. Others have done this admirably, and some not so admirably. The nation and lawmakers on Capital Hill, as well as the President, will debate the recommendations for days and weeks to come.

However, there are three provisions within the report that indicate to me that the entirety of the Baker gang study is suspect. In fact, these three statements alone are enough to discredit the entire report.

It is time for Baker, Hamilton, O'Connor, Pinetta and company to go back into retirement. Good riddance.

First of all, the report stipulates a time-frame for pulling our troops back. This is simply unconscionable. To publicly indicate a time-table for the beginning of our scale-back simply plays into the hands of Jihadists who will now bide their time until we start leaving. The terrorist insurgency will now simply wait, building up their strength and resources, until we begin to limit our military presence. This is nothing less than disastrous for Iraq, for our mission, and ultimately for America's future.

Second, the report, as expected, urges the United States to open talks with Syria and Iran as a means to 'stabilize the region.' This is sheer lunacy. Both are terrorist states. Iran wishes to annihilate Israel. Iran's President denies that the Holocaust ever occurred. We may as well open up talks with Charles Manson on how to improve the nation's prison system.

According to Arab sources who monitor Middle Eastern websites and news reports, Syria is viewing the Baker gang report as a triumph. To quote the Syrians, 'This proves that our policies are working and that we are now being recognized as the major force and influence in the region.'

Can we all join together and scream a collective 'THANK-YOU' to Baker, Hamilton, Meese, O'Connor, Pinetta, and company for playing right into the hands of the single largest state sponsor of terrorism?

Third, the most damning of all the provisions of the report is the suggestion that Israel give up the Golan Heights to Hamas as a means of luring Syria to the negotiation table. As reported to you here on The Liberty Sphere last week, this was expected as a major provision of the report. But to see it in print and talked about seriously on television and radio gives one pause to consider the nauseating fact that America has been so sullied and brainwashed by the Left that it has now become fashionable to denigrate one of our staunchest allies in the world.

The fact that Baker, Pinetta, Hamilton, and even O'Connor would put their name on such an abomination is to be expected. But Edwin Meese? This is the real shocker.

Israel is but a tiny fraction of the land in the Middle East, which is overwhelmingly Muslim. The fact that Muslims want it all is ample proof that no amount of negotiation or appeasement will ever be enough to satisfy them. They want it all. They want Israel...all of it. And, they want the entire world.

This one provision alone is enough to toss the entirety of the Baker gang report into the garbage as 'dead on arrival.' In fact, I am sickened that these supposedly intelligent men and women would even think about such an atrocity as to suggest that our allies give up part of their land to lure a terrorist state to the negotiation table.

It is for these reasons that I see no reason for any consideration to be given at all to the Iraq Study Group report. It has been totally discredited. The thinking of its members is tainted, their judgment skewed.

Time to hunker down, do whatever we need to do to win, and get the job done. Victory, complete victory, for America is the only acceptable outcome.

Thus, to the has-beens from another era who were brought out of retirement to bless us with their overwhelming wisdom, let me say, BE GONE! AWAY WITH YOU! GET THEE FROM HENCE! Time to put your minds to something a bit more in line with where you are at present...like a friendly game of shuffle board.

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