Bye-bye America: The legacy of Bush II and Reagan

Fuckers!

p m carpenter's commentary: Bye-bye America: The legacy of Bush II and Reagan:

The fix is in. The scam is on. And the suspense, as modest as it was, is prematurely over.

The Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group is expected to release a report that is heavy on regional talks but light on talk of withdrawal timetables. Anticipating this, the Bush administration has preemptively fabricated a presto of regional confabs -- Bush in Jordan and Cheney in Saudi Arabia -- while remaining characteristically mum on any talk of a timed, phased withdrawal. Hence when the report is officially released next month, the administration will tout, We're way ahead of you -- all that could be done is already being done.

As added cushion -- read 'cover' -- for doing what it planned on doing anyway, the administration by then will also have its 'independent' Pentagon and National Security Council reports on hand, saying much the same: Stage a diplomatic chat now and then, set no enforceable conditions, and pray like hell that things somehow work out.