The Iraq Study Group Report

Many Canadians trumpet this report as the solution to all the world's problems but these are the same Canadians who support our own government caving into the extortion practiced by our own home grown terrorists.......Caledonia, Oka, etc. etc.

Jewish World Review Dec. 11, 2006 /20 Kislev, 5766

Slick Jim Baker's solution: Buy the bastards off!

By Dan Gordon

Selling out Lebanon, Israel, Iraq…and the United States

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | The Iraq Study Group on the face of it seems to be a well meaning enough document put together buy a well meaning enough group of elder statespersons. That's what it seems to be. But that's not what it is. One of the Study Group's co-chairs, Lee Hamilton, is a good, decent, and principled man. The other co-chair is James Baker. James Baker is to politics and diplomacy what J.R Ewing was to oil. Thus what one has is a decent face masking a much more cynical if indeed not sinister one.

On the very first page of the report in a letter from the co-chairs one finds the following:

"Our political leaders must build a bi-partisan approach to bring a responsible conclusion to what is now a lengthy and costly war."

Well, what's wrong with that, one might ask? In an interview commenting on the Study group's report, Lee Hamilton stated that everything in the Middle East is connected. I believe that is true. The problem is that the Study Group is disconnecting the war in Iraq from America's most pressing problem in the Middle East; not America's war on terror, but Middle East Terrorists' war on America.

I am not referring to the war in Iraq, that is a battle in a larger war. That is the war that Islamo Terrorist groups have declared on us. Whether we like it or not, whether we want it or not, whether we deserve it or not, we are in it. It was not born of Bush's invasion of Iraq, nor Afghanistan, nor on 9/11.

If one is looking for a first major skirmish, one can lay it at the feet of that hypocritical, holier than thou, false prophet of peace, Jimmy Carter, who paved the way for the Iranian revolution of Shia Islamo Fascism and who received in gratitude from the Ayatollahs the capture of the American Embassy in Teheran and the kidnapping and hostage taking of all its inhabitants.

If you think that wasn't a start of a war, flash forward a few years to the killing of two hundred-forty-one Marines in Beirut by Iranian backed Hezbollah terrorists. The litany continues with the distant thud of ever closer gun fire; embassies, battleships, pin pricks to a super power, not rising, in the words of a former Secretary of Defense, to a level which demands anything more than rhetoric in response. There is a through line decades long that finally catches our attention on 9/11.

Regardless of what you think or don't think of the war in Iraq you will delude yourself if you believe that it is not a major battle in the ongoing war pitting Islamo Terrorism against us. You will delude yourself at your peril. Do not believe me, listen to the terrorists themselves. As soon as the Iraq Study Group's report was out, here was the response of Abu Ayman, a senior leader of Islamic Jihad, "The report proves this is the era of Islam and of Jihad. It is not just a simple victory it is a great one…it is no doubt that Allah and his Angels were fighting with them against the Americans. It is a sign to all those that keep saying that America, Israel and the West in general cannot be defeated on the ground, so let us negotiate with them…the next step would be a total defeat on their (American) land."

Thus when the Iraq Study Group states on its opening page that its object is to find a bipartisan approach "to bring a responsible conclusion to what is now a lengthy and costly war" they are in fact divorcing Iraq, which is but a mere battle, from the larger war in which it takes place. In so doing, they not only guarantee defeat in that battle, but they greatly enhance the prospects for defeat in that larger and I promise you far lengthier and far costlier war in which we are now engaged.

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