Mary Lyon, From The Left -- World News Trust
Dec. 7, 2006 -- No wonder Daddy’s crying, and no wonder I’m still shaking my head. I’ve looked at this Iraq Study Group, listened to the coverage, read the analysis, and I’m still –- well -– underwhelmed. I guess one might feel that way if the most strenuous exercise one gets these days is trying to keep the “I Told You So’s” sucked in along with one’s expanding holiday gut.
So what is it I’m really seeing here? The report itself (yawn…) is a nicely-bound book of fig leaves. WE could have told George W. Bush -– AND the rest of the American people who bought the BS -– ALL of this, and quite some time ago, too. I guess George never did bother to listen to his dad, with his experience and insights about Iraq and its neighborhood. He certainly wasn’t listening to any of us on the anti-war front, nor to any of the experts who spoke as loudly as they could from their state of burial way down in the back of the front sections of our nation’s great newspapers. I doubt he really was listening to his “higher father,” unless it was some case of mistaken identity about who was really speaking to him. Frankly, I doubt if Dubya’s going to listen to his other “higher father,” James Baker, now, either. The last time he paid attention to Baker was when he stood to profit from it -– as Baker undoubtedly told him how he was going to work certain Supreme Court justices to win a favorable vote over the Florida recount. I’m guessing he doesn’t like what Baker has to say to him now.
So let’s see -– the Iraq Exercise in Futility Group has spoken. (Yawn.) Sorry, I’m just really underwhelmed. Sometimes it makes me feel as though I’d get more out of going to George-the-41st and having a good cry with him than to hold out much realistic hope for any progress here. If I were you, Poppy, I’d be sobbing in public, too, knowing what my miscreant spawn has done to Iraq, AND to America, and, let’s not forget good ol’ Afghanistan. I’d have another good cry over the coverage -– and how almost every news report and commentary about the ISG’s verdicts seems to end by questioning whether Junior is going to pay any attention to it. Perhaps if you don’t like to read, anyway, you’re not apt to be all that interested in reading the writing on the wall, either.
As we look into the Iraq Study Group’s efforts, it’s like the proverbial onion being slowly peeled layer by layer. The initial reports about the findings were annoyingly predictable: try diplomacy (especially with the folks you’ve been dissing in public), regroup the troops, start bringing some of ‘em home, pressure the Iraqi government to start walking on its own because, like a manipulative toddler, it’s grown much too heavy for Mom or Dad to keep carrying around all the time anymore. The ISG report says the present policies aren’t working, and we need to make changes. No DUH! And how much money did we spend for the group members to find this out? I could have told you myself for a whole lot cheaper. Yeah, yeah. Heard it. Seen it. Already got it from a whole bunch of those dumb ol’ “cut and run” Democrats -– for months, and even a year or so in some cases. Even yelled it at my TV whenever some White House jerk or republi-CON excuse-maker showed up to press the old “stay the course” crapola. Heck, I’ve even heard it from the disgraced-and-replaced Donald Rumsfeld by now.
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