On AlterNet: iraq study group
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Jim Lobe, IPS News. April 16, 2008.
A new assessment finds that the decrease in violence over the past six months has not led to political reconciliation.
Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. June 21, 2007.
Matt Corley: The Giuliani campaign claims he quit the ISG because it became too political but Rudy really left for the reason he does almost everything--money.
Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. June 20, 2007.
Taylor Marsh: First Rudy quits the Iraq Study Group to raise money for himself, now victims' family members say "He did nothing" on Sept. 11th. That "9/11 armor" is thinner than he thought.
Norman Solomon, AlterNet. December 18, 2006.
The problem with the U.S. war effort is not strategy and management, as the ISG will have us believe, but lies and slaughter.
Joe Conason, Truthdig. December 16, 2006.
What deserves far greater attention in the Iraq Study Group report is its conclusion that there is no military solution to the American dilemma in Iraq, and that the only way out is negotiation.
Michael Schwartz, Tomdispatch.com. December 14, 2006.
Pulling out of Iraq would be an imperially momentous decision. It would mean the abandonment of more than two decades of American foreign policy in the Middle East.
Will Durst, AlterNet. December 12, 2006.
If we had a president with a penchant for the written word, perhaps he would have given the Iraq Study Group's report a brief scan.
Patrick Cockburn, The Independent UK. December 11, 2006.
DC can't stop distorting the unpopularity of the occupation in Iraq: the Iraq Study Group revealed that on one day last July US officials reported 93 attacks or significant acts of violence. In reality, it added, "a careful review of the reports ... brought to light 1,100 acts of violence."
David Swanson, davidswanson.org. December 8, 2006.
Congress passed a law banning permanent bases in Iraq and the Baker-Hamilton Report suggests that Bush state we don't have long-term plans - meanwhile, construction continues.
Tom Engelhardt, Tomdispatch.com. December 5, 2006.
If we were to follow the recommendations of James Baker's Iraq Study Group, we'd be embedded in Iraq for at least another three to five years.
