CNN/Time: Can Bush find an exit?

[deminks]

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

He waited until he woke up, hung over, one morning at 40 before giving up booze cold. He fought the idea of a homeland-security agency for eight months after 9/11 and then scampered aboard and called it his idea.

But Bush has never had to pull off a U-turn like the one he is contemplating now: to give up on his dream of turning Babylon into an oasis of freedom and democracy and instead begin a staged withdrawal from Iraq, rewrite the mission of the 150,000 U.S. troops there as they begin to draw down, launch a diplomatic Olympics across the Middle East and restart the flagging peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.

Even calling all that a reversal is misnomer; it would be more like a personality transplant.

(snip)

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.

(end snips)

I submit that he cannot find exits.

[marmar]

1. Hopefully he'll find the White House exit.....

and they'll lock the door behind him.

:nopity:

[XanaDUer]

2. Hah!

:evilgrin:

[Dudley_DUright]

3. That was my first thought even before seeing the picture of clueless George

:rofl:

[Toots]

4. But Bush has never had to pull off a U-turn

He has made the start anyway..."We have never been about Stay the Course"

[itsmesgd]

5. The ISG are not bi-partisan, they are daddy's boys

Please remember this week that the Iraq Study Group is not a group of bipartisans, they are poppy's boys. They are the same people that were behind the WHIG White House Irag Group that pushed for, and got, a war in Iraq starting back in 2002. Malloy spoke at lenght of this last Friday. These people are Iran-Contra, Carlyle Groupers, War-mongering, PNAC'ing criminals. This is not an attempt by poppy to send help to reign in chimpy, but an attempt to legitimize the war and the failed occupation. The "pullback recommendation" that has been leaked is not a pull out. The report from this "group" is over 100 pages and I'm sure says alot more than "pull back". Plus, why did we listen to a non-official group when Congress is supposed to provide oversight. This is not a Congressional oversight committee. This is an "instead of" Congressional oversight committee. What is the purpose of Congress if the Pres can get advice from his friends and Congress signs off on this?


Who are the ISG? See below
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=CHI20061127&articleId=3987

[Robeson]

6. Exactly. The names "James Baker" and "bi-partisan" do NOT coincide.