US think tank urges retreat from Iraq (AFP)

[Eugene]

US think tank urges retreat from Iraq

by Dave Clark

1 hour, 22 minutes ago

BAGHDAD (AFP) - An independent think tank warned that the situation in Iraq was
beyond repair and urged that US forces should be pulled out whatever the result
of the current "surge" of troops into Baghdad.

A report from Washington's Council on Foreign Relations concluded that a US military
victory was impossible in Iraq, where "amateurish" post-invasion rule by American
officials had seen Iraq collapse into civil war.

The respected institute's stark assessment comes at a time of collapsing public support
for the war in the United States and mounting opposition to President George W. Bush's
strategy within Congress.

"The United States has already achieved all that it is likely to achieve in Iraq...
Staying in Iraq can only drive up the price of those gains in blood, treasure and
strategic position," wrote Steven Simon, author of the report.

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Full article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070209/pl_afp/iraqstrategyus_070209140225

[Kagemusha]

1. Yeah, this'll just be ignored but, gee, even the CFR is shrill now

Even more smart people daring to tell the President off.

[Double T]

2. Objective, rational opinions fall on deaf pigheaded RW neocon bushco ears.........

while conditions in Iraq continue to deteriorate; I'm convinced bushco wants to hang on to this war, regardless of the loss of American lives, till he leaves office.

[Warren Stupidity]

3. Bunch of looney left pot smoking hippy radicals.

Pay no attention to:

Stephen Biddle
Senior Fellow for Defense Policy

Award-winning author of Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle. Former Associate Professor and Elihu Root Chair of Military Studies at the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. Current work examines U.S. defense policy and strategy.

Expertise:

U.S. national security policy; military strategy and the conduct of war; technology in modern warfare; recent operations in the war on terror.

http://www.cfr.org/bios/2603/stephen_biddle.html

or:

Robert D. Blackwill
Counselor
Former Deputy Assistant to the President, Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Planning, and Presidential Envoy to Iraq. U.S. Ambassador to India from 2001 to 2003.

Expertise:

Transatlantic relations; the United States and Asia; Russia and the West; the United States and the Middle East.

http://www.cfr.org/bios/6/robert_d_blackwill.html

or:
Max Boot
Senior Fellow for National Security Studies

Award-winning author and former Editorial Editor for the Wall Street Journal. Recently completed War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today, which examines how technological revolutions have transformed warfare and the global balance of power.

Expertise:

Defense policy; defense budget; proliferation; nation-building and peacekeeping; democracy and human rights; U.S. grand strategy; national security; military technology; military history; U.S. foreign policy; terrorism and guerilla warfare; terrorism; media.

http://www.cfr.org/bios/5641/max_boot.html

Just a few of the idiots over there, the no-nothing bozos, the surrender monkies bloviating about matters best left to the real experts like Cheney et al.