The Iraq Study Group

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This morning I watched the live press conference where the Iraq Study Group unveiled it's long anticipated report. The report is seen as antithetical to the position the President has had on the war, but I'm sure by tomorrow all the brightest pundits will convince the press that Bush always had held the ideas that are in the report. Ah, yes so this is what James Baker is up to when he isn't defrauding the American voters by stopping recounts that would have proven that George W. Bush didn't win his first term election. And oh dear, Ed Meese was a sight up there behind the podium. I learned that when he isn't busily keeping the president ignorant of what Ollie North is doing in the basement, or accusing Hugh Hefner of promoting rape and white slavery he occupies his time disgustingly rubbing at his nose, applying lip balm, and fiddling with his dentures while the big boys talk to the press. Only in times when people like Henry Kissinger once again stalk the halls of the White House would they dare drag that old bastard Meese out of his creation creation science laboratory and put him in front of reporters.

I found the most illuminating question of the press conference to be the first one. A reporter for the Washington Post asked if, given the Study Group's emphasis on what a dangerous and fragile situation Iraq is in right now, might we not have already missed our window for "fixing" the situation in the nine months it took the Study Group to release their report?

The reply was a patronizing "Why, not at all my dear!" From Baker, who assured the reporter that things in Iraq were still potentially salvageable if those naughty Iraqis would just stand up and take responsibility for their country. The only reason, he told her, that the report took 9 months to release was because the Study Group did not want to have their report influence the midterm election.

There is only one effect the Group's report could have had on the election, and anyone can see it. The report's contradiction of the Bush administration's policy's in Iraq would have further illustrated to the nation how inept our president, and his supporters are. The report could only have helped the democrats. So in their seasoned wisdom the allegedly bipartisan Study Group resolved to sit on the report for months. For months they let Iraq spiral into chaos while they thought they knew how it might be fixed. They let Americans and Iraqis die because they didn't want to loose any more republican congressional seats.

Naturally, there were no further questions from the press on this issue.

Comments

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Follow up questions would break the sacred media/establishment non-aggression treaty. The press don't ask the obvious probing questions, and the establishment doesn't jail them or have them assassinated.

It's all just as well anyhow as in order to 'rouse outrage in the public it would take an almost super human feat anyway, like preempting the super bowl or something.