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 New Panel Assembled to Study Iraq War PolicyPosted on Mar 15, 2006Congress convened this bipartisan group of 10 prominent Americans—which includes former Secretary of State James Baker and former CIA Director William Casey—to assess Bush’s policies in Iraq. We can’t decide whether adults are finally being brought in to clean up the president’s mess or this is a way of ignoring an issue by appointing a blue-ribbon panel to study it. Thoughts, anyone? AP: Ten prominent Americans, including former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, are forming a bipartisan group to assess the Bush administration’s policies in Iraq and political and economic developments in the troubled country. The study was requested by Congress and will be announced Wednesday on Capitol Hill by Baker and Lee H. Hamilton, director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, vice chairman of the Sept. 11 commission and a former member of Congress from Indiana, as providing a fresh look at Iraq. Advertisement Previous item: Top General Contradicts Bush's Iran Bombs Claim Next item: The Liberal Baby Bust New and Improved CommentsWe are launching a major overhaul of our comments section. In addition to more robust spam filtering and moderation, new features include the ability to rate other comments, sort how they are displayed and respond directly via e-mail or in a thread. Unfortunately, commenters will lose their existing Truthdig identities. It's a pain, we know, but on the plus side you will now be able to log in with a plethora of options, including Google, Twitter, Facebook and Disqus accounts. Before launching this system we spent months in discussion with our top commenters. We listened to the feedback and we hope you like what we've come up with. Please direct any problems or concerns to us via our contact page. |
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By AllWeWant, March 16, 2006 at 8:06 am Link to this comment
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Bipartisan? James Baker? A committee headed by Baker cannot be bipartisan.
In fact, an organism (committee) is never bipartisan: although it may function in various ways to serve its varying needs and interests, its collective parts are wholly dedicated to serving the organism. James Baker, the Bush prelate, brought in to confer an appearance of intelligent analysis to a White House run by PR specialists who roboticlly regurgitate a message designed to sell loyalty to the rule, will, in the end, regurgitate the message.
Report thisBy Robin Edwards-King, March 16, 2006 at 6:11 am Link to this comment
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Answer me this:
Why wasn’t this “Blue Ribbon Panel” set up to examine these issues BEFORE we invaded?
Why are Americans so short sighted when it comes to cause and effect?
Why are Americans so addicted to “shock and Awe”?
Why do Americans act like nothing is their fault?
Report thisBy issak, March 15, 2006 at 7:23 pm Link to this comment
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James Baker? William Casey? please! how can anyone trust Bush’s 41 errant boy JB? another charade, more propaganda.
Total bs, prominent Americans? that’s all we got?
Report thisBy refusedig, March 15, 2006 at 12:50 pm Link to this comment
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First, keep in mind these realities: We and, indeed, the world will never leave Iraq as long as our industrial civilization values oil as highly as we do. Our bases there are permanent. Oil contracts are already in place for the control of Iraqi oil. See link:
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/oil/2005/crudedesigns.htm
As I have said many times before, the entire oil-hungry world desperately needs the U.S. corporate / government propaganda machines to convince Americans that its OK for Americans to bleed and die there. And, of course, the rest of the world is content to let Americans do so. Congress is participant in the propaganda effort, as well as the corporate-owned print and television media and the enormously funded corporate think tanks feverishly studying what message and how delivered will convince / placate Americans.
Is it really this bad? you might ask. What kind of a country do we live in if such a despicable thing is possible? What kind of people are we?
Americans are rapacious, lazy, greedy and stupid. Look at our President. Thats who we are. Americans participated in the slaughter of three million Vietnamese and forgot about it thirty years ago. Anything is possible for a culture that worships machines when it comes to oil.
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