Know what? Not interested. I don't think it's going to offer anything more than cover for an idiot president, and the enablers in Congress and his administration who should have been monitoring and overseeing this mess from it's misbegotten inception to it's unseemly demise.
The "bi-partisan" report is already being discounted by the man who consults his "higher father" in matters of foreign policy. His Deciderness has already made up his two petulant brain-cells that he's gonna stay even if Laura and Barney are his only supporters. He's resolute, after all.
So all the spin and other hype aside, there will be no good outcome from the whole thing. Yet another 'plan' consigned to the trash heap of history by the Decider and his sycophantic minions. After all, accepting the premise of the report is admitting that the whole Excellent Adventure has been a colosally mis-managed fuck-up. And that's just na ga ha pen (apologies to Atrios).
posted by Jo Fish on 12.03.06 at 08:01 PM
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Use the ISG as leverage to make the Sauds pay for the war, immediately upon signing go drawback and redeploy to Afghanistan.
Sauds don't like it, tought titty, they buy weapons from us and they can pay for the contractors instead of us. Bail out, fast track, and mitigate the costs. Let them be the merc sponsor in Iraq.
We must address the Afghanistan/Pakistan regional crisis. Engage Iran to help settle half the Afghan puszzle, help India fight terror on its border to that side, secure Pakistan and India to help empower nuclear buffer states towards China.
By winning Afghanistan the emerging market fuels sector will check Saud dominance and Iran's growing slice of the pie, engagement within secular Iran then feeds upon that fact to secure regional triangulation on the Sauds and Israel, strategic triangulation vs. China.
Sauds pony up, we use the equity to redeploy, engage Iran to accord the Sauds and Afghanistan, win Afghan security to help regional stability hedge the China expansion.
The MIC will agree as long as we keep Sauds dependent on its purchase, the tax rates there are better for Halliburton and we can bail out. Then we do the dirty work and get back Osama, secure a nuclear/emerging nuclear states, and counter Chinese growth.
posted by: Mr.Murder on 12.04.06 at 11:18 AM [permalink]
Be nice, Vet... Dubya is a UNITER, not a Divider... Remember?
