Bush turns to promoter of first Gulf war for 'new ideas' on this one

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Ex-Sec Of State Baker To Advise Bush On Iraq War -NYT

NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Former Secretary of State James A. Baker III will advise President George W. Bush on Iraq, heading up a Congressionally mandated, bipartisan effort to generate new ideas on war there, the New York Times reported Monday.

Baker, a longtime confidant of the first President Bush with a close but complicated relationship with the current president, plans to travel to Baghdad and the region to meet with heads of state on a fact-finding mission that officials say was encouraged by both father and son and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the Times reported.

The newspaper said the White House quietly designated Baker to the advisory role last month, the report said.

Baker declined to be interviewed for the story, but at a news conference this month, he said it was not his intention to engage in "hand-wringing about the past" but to focus on the path ahead "on a bipartisan basis in the hope that we can come up with some advice and insights that might be useful to the policy makers in Washington," the Times said.

http://www.newsnow.co.uk/cgi/NGoto/139482443?-3825

[acmavm]

1. Hmmmmm. Didn't Poopy bush** dispatch this criminal

to talk junior out of invading in the first place. I could be misrememberin though.

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3. he told Bush 'not to go it alone'

a year ago he advised a 'phased withdrawal' of troops.

"Even under the best of circumstances, the new Iraqi government will remain extremely vulnerable to internal divisions and external meddling," he said.

"Any appearance of a permanent occupation will both undermine domestic support here in the United States and play directly into the hands of those in the Middle East who -- however wrongly -- suspect us of imperial design."

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/a/2005/01/13/national1623EST0636.DTL

[Nickster]

2. Well looky here. Mr.Cleaner comes to the rescue. I swear, I couldn't see

Mr. Baker coming out of the woodwork, at the request of Poppy, to bail out this joke of a President.Once again, Poppy comes to the rescue. Geez.

[jwirr]

9. Mr. Cleaner is as much a "big oil" pimp as is *ss.

[madrchsod]

4. just a little to late

everyone can smell he pooped in his diaper

[Norquist Nemesis]

5. Sounds like somebody's getting called on the carpet

and it ain't Baker! What a mess.

[TahitiNut]

6. Baker is a major criminal - the consigliere for global corporate crime.

He's been at the core of virtually every criminal act of this cabal for the last 20 years. I put him in the Top Ten of the cabal - higher than Junior, who's an intellectually arid, pathological front man. Baker-Botts is 'The Firm' for the crime families.

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7. on target TahitiNut

it's a dangerous world and the Bush cartel is one of the biggest dangers.

[elehhhhna]

8. Baker is an ugly, tiny little creep. He leered at me once in a building

in Houston. I'm probably a foot taller than he is -- so he's apparently attracted to tall blondes.

His look gave me (and my coworkers--who witnessed it) the willies

[Sal Minella]

10. Wresting an election away from the Florida Legislature up to D.C.

may be far easier for Baker than coming up with "new ideas" in the IraQuagmire. Wonder what it feels like to be The Cleaner for that sorry outfit. Am glad I'll never know.