Alright, here's my take on the "report" from the study group.
A bunch of idiots spent a lot of tax payer dollars to tell us what we already know. That we need to increase troop levels, not pull out yet and get the worthless Iraqi government to grow a pair.
It of course adds the pander friendly "talk to Iran and Syria" parts, which to me are worthless in the extreme. In fact the whole thing is worthless, my dog figured this crap out ages ago, and he only requires a can of dog food every 12 hours or so as payment.
Snort, talk to Iran? Syria? Yeah, right after I chat up Santa and the Tooth Fairy.
About the only worthwhile point it made was that we need to increase troop levels. They get an A+ for that recommendation. The rest just serves as another catalyst for the growing global loathing of America as a whole, that our very own media has created, through the feeding frenzy over reports such as these. Not to mention it's love for the negative and it's propensity to embrace a "story" without knowledge of it's veracity. Thanks a whole heaping, steaming pile Iraq Study Group.
Your recommendation that we become a bunch of appeasing surrender monkeys really instills within me a sense of patriotic pride. NOT!
Read it for yourself.
UPDATE #1: The A-Rabs love it!!!!:"This report is a recognition of the limitation of American power," said Abdel Moneim Said, head of Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic studies in Cairo. "In the short term, America will highly suffer the loss of its reputation and credibility in the region." Yeah, way to make us look good Baker!!!
Mustafa Bakri, America hater and editor of the Egyptian tabloid Al-Osboa, told a state-run t.v. show that the report indicated "the end of America."
Bakri, who loves Syrian Prez. Bashar Assad and Saddam Hussein, told Arab countries to "capture the moment as America now is in its weakest period." Yes, that's right, now we've got the Dems in power!!!!
UPDATE #2: Sen. Joseph Lieberman, nails it: "I'm skeptical that it's realistic to think that Iran wants to help the United States succeed in Iraq," he said.
You think?????
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