"Iraq panel set to urge major withdrawals"

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

So the Iraq Study Group, which contains no Iraqis, is going to recommend a withdrawal, which will be ignored by the military geniuses in the White House and Pentagon. Meanwhile, the governments in the regions are proceeding with their own plans to solve their own problems without the "help" from the ISG or the other brilliant planners who created the mess.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061130/ap_on_go_ot/us_iraq_44

WASHINGTON - A leader of a bipartisan commission on U.S. options in
Iraq said the group has agreed on a set of recommendations due next week, and published reports said the panel will urge a major withdrawal of U.S. forces but set no firm deadlines. Such a withdrawal would gradually shift the U.S. military role from combat to support, a shift in policy for the Bush administration that
President Bush seemed to reject Thursday, days ahead of the report's release.

"This business about a graceful exit just simply has no realism to it at all," he said Thursday at a news conference in Jordan with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki by his side.

The New York Times and The Washington Post reported Thursday that the much-anticipated report from the congressionally chartered Iraq Study Group will recommend far more aggressive diplomacy to enlist other nations in helping to curb violence in Iraq. That outreach could include a regional conference among all of Iraq's neighbors, or a wider gathering of Middle East nations that would also address separate Middle East peace issues.

The Times reported that the study group will recommend direct, high-level American diplomacy with U.S. adversaries
Iran and Syria, a path that the administration has also rejected so far.

Defense officials, meanwhile, said the Pentagon is developing plans to send four more battalions to Iraq early next year. The extra combat engineer units of Army reserves would total about 3,500 troops and would come from around the United States, said officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because the deployments have not been announced.

[acmavm]

1. Why is anyone still paying attention to the front man for the

criminals who got us into this mess? Why do they even print one single word that this proven liar says? This is the part of all this that I don't understand.

The damn fools know that he's a fraud, his only concern now is his 'legacy', and they just keep reporting what the wired up moranic SOB says.

[hamletsophelia]

2. get out!!

it's the only way now, why get caught in what has become a civil war, enough lives lost to this pointless cause really... sorry but that's how i see it in 2006-7