The report won’t be delivered to Bush for another week but “people familiar with the panel’s deliberations” say…

November 30, 2006 7:38 AM
Posted By:Pam
Filed in: Middle East, National News

Figures that a leak and the Times would be together in that sentence! Here is the article referring to the recomendations of the Baker Commisssion. It appears that it is a gradual withdrawl. I would help but think that it was a major waste of time…

[I]t was the military recommendations that prompted the most debate, people familiar with the deliberations said. They said a draft report put together under the direction of Mr. Baker and Mr. Hamilton had collided with another, circulated by other Democrats on the commission, that included an explicit timeline calling for withdrawal of the combat brigades to be completed by the end of next year. In the end, the two proposals were blended.

A person who participated in the commission’s debate said that unless the government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki believed that Mr. Bush was under pressure to pull back troops in the near future, “there will be zero sense of urgency to reach the political settlement that needs to be reached.”

Commission members have said in recent days that they had to navigate around such declarations, or, as one said, “We had to move the national debate from whether to stay the course to how do we start down the path out.”

As described by the people involved in the deliberations, the bulk of the report by the Baker-Hamilton group focused on a recommendation that the United States devise a far more aggressive diplomatic initiative in the Middle East than Mr. Bush has been willing to try so far, including direct engagement with Iran and Syria. Initially, those contacts might be part of a regional conference on Iraq or broader Middle East peace issues, like the Israeli-Palestinian situation, but they would ultimately involve direct, high-level talks with Tehran and Damascus.

As ALLAHPUNDIT points out:

Assad just knocked off one Lebanese minister and there’s a report today that he has his eye on planning to kill dozens more. Hitchens put it well on Monday:

6 Responses to “The report won’t be delivered to Bush for another week but “people familiar with the panel’s deliberations” say…”

Zelda
November 30, 2006 - 07:13 PM on November 30th, 2006
Have we won the hearts and minds yet?
Fred Dawes
December 1, 2006 - 03:19 AM on December 1st, 2006
its all over, and soon the fighting will be here.but alot of this is what bush and the one world guys want.
PCD
December 1, 2006 - 07:05 AM on December 1st, 2006
Wrong, Fred.

The Democrats are cutting and running. They think hiding under their beds is the way to world peace. They are just inviting the Jihadists here.

When the Jihadists come, shitto, SF Lib, and other Defeatocrats are on their own. I won’t bother defending them.
PCD
December 1, 2006 - 08:36 AM on December 1st, 2006
4 YOU aren’t. You are SOL when this crap hits the fan. The Islamofascists don’t like perverts like you either.
Fred Dawes
December 1, 2006 - 09:51 AM on December 1st, 2006
I hope you are right PCD, Like a guy said along time ago, if you don’t kill your enemies your enemies will kill you! but ask why is the north american union happening right now?

see it like it is, not what you want to see.

kill bin laden kill the enemy by the millions and win the war.

see 1939 to 1945, history of the U.S.Army.
FrmrArtyOffcr
December 5, 2006 - 01:05 AM on December 5th, 2006
I’m still trying to figure out why the liberals are having so damn much trouble understanding the title of “COMMANDER IN CHIEF”. Why is it that they are so anxious to send troops into Darfur, Kosovo (where they’ve now been for 10 years,) and Somalia but want to pull them out of places where the US actually has some national interest? The first thing that Bush needs to do, is eliminate half of the State Dept holdovers from the Clinton Era, same thing with about half of the Clinton era Generals at the Pentagon. Far too many of these idiots think that the horn dog in chief is still in the Oval office busily getting a BJ versus actually trying to protect this country. I won’t say that the Bush administration hasn’t made mistakes, but at least they’ve made decisions.

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