The bipartisan Iraq Study Group reached a consensus on Wednesday on a final report that will call for a gradual pullback of the 15 American combat brigades now in Iraq but stop short of setting a firm timetable for their withdrawal, according to people familiar with the panel’s deliberations.Ah, the death of "stay the course." It's a beautiful thing. This is exactly why Putz has been ridiculing James Baker since the group's inception: it was clear all along that they were going to tell Bush to do something other than "stay the course" and Putz desperately wants to "stay the course," which apparently means "do whatever Bush says for as long as he wants."
But unlike Putz and the Great Leader, the people on the Study Group realize that you can't put Humpty back together again.
“I think we’ve played a constructive role,” one person involved in the committee’s deliberations said, “but from the beginning, we’ve worried that this entire agenda could be swept away by events.”That's a polite way of saying "We're screwed."
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I thought it was a polite way to say the situation is deteriorating so rapidly that soon the only US action might be a REACTION, i.e. that it no longer even nominally controls the situation there.
Which is to say, if you think we're screwed now, wait a little while. So let's get this report out ASAP for the president to piss on!
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