Iraq Study Group Reaches Concensus

reporter writes to point us to a story in the Washington Post reporting that the Iraq Study Group has reached consensus and will issue its 100-page report on December 6: 'The Iraq Study Group, which wrapped up eight months of deliberations yesterday, has reached a consensus and will call for a major withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, shifting the U.S. role from combat to support and advising, according to a source familiar with the deliberations.' The Post mentions that first word of the panel's conclusions came from the New York Times yesterday. The Times points out that it is not clear how many U.S. troops would come home; some brigades might be withdrawn to Iraqi bases out of the line of fire from which they could provide protection for remaining U.S. operations.

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In other words

[smooth wombat]

what the study group is recommending is "cut and run" or possibly, "cut and walk".

Not that it really matters since Bush is already planning to ignore what the study group says. He'll just continue to "Stay the course".

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[hachete]

People like Richard Perle seem to think that Iraq is an unfolding disaster:

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2006/1 2/neocons200612

The neo-cons - the architects of the ideology if not the actual war - are cutting loose like no one's business. They seem to think the war is going badly, and they're blaming the chimp.

And even if you don't believe the figure of 100,000 people fleeing Iraq every month, that it mught be 50,000, or even less, it's still people going gone get. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6158847.stm

Dead bodies found:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6160117.stm

more killed. every day, yet more.

If this is victory