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Postby admin » Fri Jan 27, 2012 10:20 am

Before war, Bush 'should have wondered why' « Thread Started on Oct 19, 2006, 4:44pm » --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Before war, Bush 'should have wondered why' Jordan Times - 19/10/2006 read at source: http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story_s.a ... 150Michael JansenOn Monday George W. Bush attempted to dismiss by preemption a long-awaited report by the Iraq Study Group, by telling Iraqi Premier Nuri Maliki that he would not accept its recommendations or lay down a timetable for the withdrawal of US troops from the country.Bush also told Maliki that the US would continue to support him at a time the premier is being sharply criticised in Baghdad and Washington for failing to crack down on Shiite militias which are propelling Iraq towards all-out civil war.Bush intervened a few days after US media began carrying leaks from the Study Group, cochaired by former Secretary of State James Baker and former Congressman Lee Hamilton, of proposals due to be published after the November 7 mid-term elections. In interviews with the media, Baker and unnamed officials connected with the group stated that if the Iraqi government cannot prove its viability by imposing security, achieving reconciliation between Sunnis and Shiites and providing basic services within four or five months, the US should revise its overall strategy.One option would be to enlist the help of Sunni insurgents, as well as Syria and Iran, in a campaign to stabilise Baghdad. Another would be to carry out an incremental redeployment of US troops to bases or locations where they would not be involved in fighting. Their task would be to contain the violence as much as possible and ensure the conflict does not spill over into the territory of Iraq's neighbours. Both strategies would reverse the current approach adopted by the administration.Baker, who does not seem to believe the US can achieve victory in Iraq, observed that there are options other than the administration's policy of "stay the course" and critics' calls for "cut and run". The Iraq Study Group, formed last March by Congress and supported by two respected Washington think tanks, is not the sort of body Bush is ever likely to listen to because of Baker's long-standing connection to George Bush senior. Bush junior was compelled by the downwards slide in Iraq to approve the creation of the group, but he clearly wants nothing to do with its recommendations.Baker represents Bush senior's "realistic" approach to Iraq and Middle Eastern politics. But Bush junior is a rebel with a cause who has relied exclusively on a neoconservative messianic cabal which seeks to remodel the entire area with the aim of making it US and Israel friendly.Bush senior and Baker apparently believe the neoconservative line his son is following is, as Gary Kamiya writes in an illuminating article published by Salon.com, "dangerously delusional".
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