The Iraq Study Group Is Back!
House votes to revive Iraq Study Group
By Anne Flaherty
The Associated Press
Article Last Updated: 06/22/2007 12:03:54 AM MDT
Washington - The Iraq Study Group may be coming back.
The House adopted legislation Thursday to revive the bipartisan panel of prominent former U.S. officials who last year said President Bush should change course on the war.
A new assessment by the panel would offer lawmakers an independent alternative to an administration progress report due in September. And because the panel is unlikely to suggest U.S. combat troops remain in Iraq in large numbers, its recommendations could provide political cover for Republicans who want Bush to start bringing troops home.
The measure was proposed by Rep. Chris Shays, who was hammered in the 2006 elections for his support for the war. Shays, R-Conn., says Congress could benefit from an updated assessment by the Iraq Study Group.
The House voted 355-69 to adopt the proposal as part of a $34.2 billion bill that funds State Department operations and foreign aid.
Shays’ proposal had already been adopted by voice vote, but the congressman said he insisted on a roll call to gauge support among his colleagues.
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So is the study group going to actually go to Iraq to see for themselves the progress being made, or are they going to rely on the media reports? If they are not going to get first hand information from the military and civilians on the front lines, then this study group won’t mean SHIT. Just another way to justify turning tail and running. They are a bunch of dumb asses in Washington. Bring the troops home, they only bring the war back here too!!!!!!!
June 22nd, 2007 at 3:49 amAs I understood, there is not one senior military member on the “study group”, right?
June 22nd, 2007 at 3:56 amLike the guy from lonesurvivor said ,WE have people in DC trying to tell the military,what the ROE are and how to fight this war.They make me want to lose heart,and I not even over there!
June 22nd, 2007 at 4:27 amthose pantied fuck sticks.
Besides certain brews and Don Cherry, this is the best to come from Canada:
In Flanders Fields
By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army
IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
……
they will forsaken our fallen for fleeting moments of personal power, I wish nothing but living hell for them and their families, may their treasonous souls burn
June 22nd, 2007 at 4:54 amSteve in NC
That is what I am talking about!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The feeling is mutual!!
June 22nd, 2007 at 5:13 amDidn’t they learn the first time?
June 22nd, 2007 at 6:15 amYes Yes why should we listen to Military Leadership that have dedicated thier entire lives to the study and acts of war? Much Much better to put our faith in a handfull of washed up politico’s after all a General may bring victory but a Politico can bring a warm fuzzy.
Idiots God help US.
June 22nd, 2007 at 6:21 amWendy, agreed. How can a study group make any decision if they don’t go out there and look for themselves. It’s like buying a car without test driving it because the dealer says it runs like a dream. Wasn’t the last report a NY Times best seller? Who banked off of that deal? Study groups are a waste of time. What we need is leadership in DC and in Baghdad.
June 22nd, 2007 at 7:04 amSteve in NC, right on ,right on, right on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 22nd, 2007 at 7:05 amI don’t get it. What new and profound insights has the Iraq appeasement, err, study group offered up last time they did this? Ummm, let’s see.
Force Isreal to give yet more land concessions
Negotiate with Syria and Iran
Same baloney we’ve heard time and time again. Again, I would LOVE to have someone explain to me what new insights and fresh perspective the Iraq Surrender Group brings to the table.
June 22nd, 2007 at 9:26 amI smell a play by the d’rats working with iran and syria
the d’rats are using the iraq surrender group as cover for the us to vacate the middle east, enabling iran to have control over the greater mid east
in response iran stops the syrian and hamas war on Israel for a peaceful solution brokered by the d’rat led congress,
this success in the middle east will give the d’rats the ability to campaign that they brought an end to the mistaken war by Bush and gain the white house in 08
Israel should be weakened by a two front attack and will accept going back to the pre 73 borders
iran wins, the d’rats win and we have peace in our time
someone tell me why did nancy go the syria?
June 22nd, 2007 at 11:12 amSo, the CIC is now sending out a bunch of old idiotic and possibly anti-semetic “naybobs of negatism” to get “the big picture in Iraq”. How fucking stupid is that?
These same dumb asses still think the key to mideast peace lies resolving the Israeli-Palestinian issue.
And how many of them are working for the wahabbiists in Saudi?
When will the CIC ever get his head out of his ass?
And since when did a bunch of dried up old geezers get more “cred” than the people doing the fighting anyways?
Seems that the CIC is spending too much time kissing Dhimocrat ass and taking his eyes off the damn ball.
June 22nd, 2007 at 3:48 pmThis whole fucking war has turned into a political war for power between the republicans and the democrats. Sadly if this partisan war continues here at home, the war over seas will be lost and the democrats will win all around. The war needs to be won here first, before we can win the war over there. This whole mess is just despicable.
June 22nd, 2007 at 4:18 pmTypical Washington. Get a focus group to talk about an issue and then equate that with actually doing something while twiddling your thumbs.
Uh huh. That’ll get something done.
But,wait….. Their intentions were good!
Arrggg! Ack!
June 23rd, 2007 at 1:02 amThat’s Iraq SURRENDER Group for all you folks in Rio Linda.
June 23rd, 2007 at 11:40 amLOL Jarhead68.
June 23rd, 2007 at 2:39 pmIf this group recommends turning tail and running, then I dont see how any patriotic american who decides to serve in the military will ever trust any future president who sends them off to war. Our contracts should say we wil fight till the job is done, short of that our troops will be killing and getting killed for nothing!
June 24th, 2007 at 2:24 amJoe,
You are right on, Brother!
What can you do when the voters are so fucking stupid they elect traitor bitches like Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid?
Both of them belong in prison along with surrender monkey John Murtha. I wonder how many brave and patriotic Americans we have lost because of these bitchs’ big fucking mouths.
It makes me sick I’m breathing the same air as them.
June 25th, 2007 at 5:27 am