New Panel to Investigate Iraq War Policy

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON - Ten prominent Americans, including former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, are forming a bipartisan group to assess the Bush administration's policies in Iraq and political and economic developments in the troubled country.

The study was requested by Congress and will be announced Wednesday on Capitol Hill by Baker and Lee H. Hamilton, director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, vice chairman of the Sept. 11 commission and a former member of Congress from Indiana, as providing a fresh look at Iraq.

Congress is increasingly restive about the human and financial toll of the administration's policies in Iraq and an apparently open-ended administration commitment to keep U.S. troops there and help rebuild the country amid sectarian violence and attacks by insurgents.

Five Republicans and five Democrats, including Robert M. Gates, director of the CIA from 1991-93, will serve on the group. Former Sen. Charles Robb, D-Va., also will be a member........

AP/Yahoo

[MadMaddie]

1. This will go the way of the 9/11 Commission investigation and

subsequent report...Nowhere>>>

[KoKo]

2. WHAT???? James Baker should never be on this panel....he has

no credibility and has indeed worked for the White House...aside from being the Controlling head of the Bush Family Evil Empire.

What are they thinking... And that old hack Lee Hamilton? Robert Gates who had ties to the Neo-Cons???

:grr:

[MadMaddie]

6. Like I said "What's the point"?

[acmejack]

3. Baker & Gates perfect.

Anything with Baker as a participant is guaranteed to have a * friendly result. You might as well write it today and save everyone all the time, trouble and expense. We are having a bit of a budget problem i hear, some austerity might be in order.

[blm]

4. That's the DC powerstructure Whitewash Team.

.

[mom cat]

7. Yep. Baked will not blast Bush. At most, thee will be a slap on the wrist.

What a hoax.

[HuffleClaw]

5. *yawn*

yet ANOTHER whitewash? who believes this crap anymore?

[IChing]

8. New panel to investigate Iraq war policy

By BARRY SCHWEID
AP Diplomatic Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ten prominent Americans, including former Secretary of State James A. Baker III,(cough) are forming a bipartisan group to assess the Bush administration's policies in Iraq and political and economic developments in the troubled country.

The study was requested by Congress and will be announced Wednesday on Capitol Hill by Baker and Lee H. Hamilton, director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, vice chairman of the Sept. 11 commission(cough) and a former member of Congress from Indiana, as providing a fresh look at Iraq.

Congress is increasingly restive about the human and financial toll of the administration's policies in Iraq and an apparently open-ended administration commitment to keep U.S. troops there and help rebuild the country amid sectarian violence and attacks by insurgents.

Five Republicans and five Democrats, including Robert M. Gates, director of the CIA from 1991-93(cough), will serve on the group. Former Sen. Charles Robb, D-Va., also will be a member.>>>>snip
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ_INQUIRY?SITE=FLSTU&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

cough, vomit, cough again

[stop the bleeding]

9. why do they even bother with the illusion of investigations?

hell in a hand basket!

[IChing]

11. Sorry dupe, I can't find out in the news release which 3 "think tanks"

are supporting this,
anyone know?

"The congressionally-financed United States Institute of Peace and three private think tanks are supporting the inquiry. "

[Solly Mack]

10. Ask my why I'm so cynical?

LMAO

[donkeyotay]

12. What a joke. This must be from the Onion.

Someone tell Washington that they're having a credibility crisis.

[KoKo]

14. Ain't that the truth! Thought the same thing when I saw the article...

Sheesh....

[Rex]

13. Baker & Hamiliton; can't ask for a better pair of traitors.

They'll have this whole thing whitewashed and soooo forgotten by next month it ain't even funny.

[PVK]

15. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA etc.