Iraq Report: "A Giant Step Sideways"
Despite the mainstream media's sound and fury, many analysts say the Iraq Study Group report has little to do with leaving Iraq any time soon. Instead, they fear the report's diligent research and assiduous recommendations serve to obfuscate the depth of the US-created crisis, change the nature of the occupation, pave the way for multinational privatization of Iraq's resources, and distract from increasingly stentorian calls for immediate withdrawal.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121206A.shtml
A Peace Prize for Iraq: The Economist's Solution to the War
Dean Baker writes: "The events of the last week should have dashed any hopes that the Iraq Study Group's plan would lead to a quick US withdrawal from Iraq and an end to the violence. President Bush has made it clear that he will not accept the ISG plan for a phased withdrawal of troops. Even if he did accept the ISG plan, it is not clear how much longer US troops would remain in Iraq, nor that the plan would lead to an end to the civil war.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121206E.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+Study+Group
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121206A.shtml
A Peace Prize for Iraq: The Economist's Solution to the War
Dean Baker writes: "The events of the last week should have dashed any hopes that the Iraq Study Group's plan would lead to a quick US withdrawal from Iraq and an end to the violence. President Bush has made it clear that he will not accept the ISG plan for a phased withdrawal of troops. Even if he did accept the ISG plan, it is not clear how much longer US troops would remain in Iraq, nor that the plan would lead to an end to the civil war.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121206E.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Iraq+Study+Group
rudkla - 12. Dez, 22:26
