Wonder why the ISG did not look back?

[deminks]

One word, Condiliar.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/12/03/coverstory.tm/index.html?section=cnn_latest

Realism was exactly what the people who cooked up the commission had in mind when they set the bipartisan operation in motion more than a year ago. The review began as a $1 million insertion into an appropriations bill by Republican Representative Frank Wolf of Virginia, who had gone to Iraq last year and decided the policy wasn't working.

He slotted the money to the U. S. Institute of Peace, whose president, Richard Solomon, approached the one person in Bushland who still had a reputation for realism and who could command the president's ear, alone: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Would she propose the commission to the president?

Rice's request: Don't look back

After some hesitation, Rice agreed, but made one request: the commission had to look forward, not backward, in part because she knew the dysfunctional Bush foreign policy operation, tilted so heavily along the Cheney-Rumsfeld axis, would not permit, much less sustain, scrutiny.

The ISG - too little, too late, too much bullshit.

[Warren Stupidity]

1. The great question that remains unanswered.

Bremer and the CPA: criminally negligent incompetence or deliberate and treasonous malfeasance?

We know that there was a criminal conspiracy to defraud congress and the american people into supporting an unjustified and criminal war of aggression against Iraq, that much is obvious. What remains unresolved is the cause of that odd first year of the occupation where everything that could have been done to guarantee a successful vibrant insurgency was done by Paul Bremer and his CPA occupation government.