The coming clash over Iraq policy
Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland
12/04/06
The Baker Commission report calls for a phased withdrawal of combat forces in Iraq and for the United States to talk to adversarial neighboring countries -- that is, Iran and Syria -- about playing a more constructive role in that country's civil war. If his rhetoric before the release of the report is any indication, President Bush will pretend to adjust his Iraq policy but spurn the commission's main recommendations. From this inflexible man, that course is not surprising. The president, somewhere in a parallel universe, continues to talk about 'victory,' despite a clear warning from then soon-to-be-sacked Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld that he should alter his failed strategy in Iraq and begin downplaying expectations in case that strategy change didn't work."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1863
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Baker+Commission
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rumsfeld
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ivan+Eland
by Ivan Eland
12/04/06
The Baker Commission report calls for a phased withdrawal of combat forces in Iraq and for the United States to talk to adversarial neighboring countries -- that is, Iran and Syria -- about playing a more constructive role in that country's civil war. If his rhetoric before the release of the report is any indication, President Bush will pretend to adjust his Iraq policy but spurn the commission's main recommendations. From this inflexible man, that course is not surprising. The president, somewhere in a parallel universe, continues to talk about 'victory,' despite a clear warning from then soon-to-be-sacked Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld that he should alter his failed strategy in Iraq and begin downplaying expectations in case that strategy change didn't work."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1863
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Baker+Commission
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Rumsfeld
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ivan+Eland
rudkla - 5. Dez, 16:10
