Two years ago, in December 2004, two frank face-to-face briefings were delivered to him from the field. In the first, the CIA station chief in Baghdad, who had filed an urgent memo the month before titled "The Expanding Insurgency in Iraq," was invited to the White House. The CIA officer had written that the insurgency was becoming more "self-confident" and in Sunni provinces "largely unchallenged." His report concluded: "The ease with which the insurgents move and exist in Baghdad and the Sunni heartland is bolstering their self-confidence further." He predicted that the United States would suffer more than 2,000 dead. Bush's reaction was to remark about the station chief, "What is he, some kind of defeatist?" Less than a week after the briefing, the officer was informed he was being reassigned from his post in Baghdad.
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A former high-ranking intelligence officer and close associate of Harvey's told me that during Harvey's briefing the president interrupted, turning to his aides to inquire, "Is this guy a Democrat?" Harvey's warnings, of course, were as thoroughly ignored as those of the CIA station chief.
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In preparation for his rejection of the Baker Commission report, Bush created two other study groups within his administration, one led by Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The effect was to diminish the commission as merely one among several groups offering advice. For all intents and purposes Pace's group is a counter-commission.

He's is there to pay the highest price for oil that has ever been known in the world: many thousands of dead soldiers, tens of thousands wounded, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi dead, and borrowing and spending more money than anyone in history.

At this rate, IF he secures the oil, the price per barrel will always have been too high, and, again, meanwhile our banker, the communist Chinese circle the globe buying oil contracts and exploration deals with every country possible, JUST AS ANY SUPERPOWER OF GREAT WEALTH SHOULD, without damaging their reputation (it has in fact been enhanced), bankrupting their country, and sending citizens off to die in fruitless wars.

So now, with the ISG findings backing him up (with large portions of it utterly ignored) and his own phony-baloney commissions to rubberstamp his course, bush will continue down the primrose path until he finds himself to be a solitary lemming going over the cliff, dragging an unwilling country over with him.

It does no good for the people to speak, as they did last election, when for all practical purposes, our current C-in-C and his generals are deaf.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In an emotional speech on the Senate floor Thursday night, Sen Gordon Smith, a moderate Republican from Oregon who has been a supporter of the war in Iraq, said the U.S. military's "tactics have failed" and he "cannot support that anymore."

Smith said he is at, "the end of my rope when it comes to supporting a policy that has our soldiers patrolling the same streets in the same way, being blown up the same bombs, day after day.

"That is absurd," he said. "It may even be criminal."

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"I, for one, am tired of paying the price of 10 or more of our troops dying a day. So let's cut and run or cut and walk, but let us fight the way on terror more intelligently that we have because we have fought this war in a very lamentable way," he said.

The Iraqi Surrender Group made up of ROR's.

Their lead editorial?  "The Counsel of Cowards", wherein all recommendations of the ISG are lumped into "surrender".

Of course, had you looked at their front page today, you would see the editors there put Jim Baker's and Lee Hamilton's faces on monkeys' bodies, under the headline "Surrender Monkeys - Iraq Panel Urges US to Give Up"

So, we know where all this hoopla is going...  

After all Baker has sold Lebanon to Syria in 1991 and is trying it again. He sold Israel in 1991 and is trying it again. Well, Mr. Baker: it's 2006 now go back to Houston.

Israel's prime minister, Ehud Olmert, said on Thursday that he disagreed with the Iraq Study Group's linkage of the turmoil in Iraq to the need to resolve the conflicts between Israel and its Arab neighbors.

"The Middle East has a lot of problems that are not connected to us,"

Sorry to say pal, the world has a lot of problems that are directly related to Israel's policies and steadfast denial typified by Olmert's statement above.