U.S. Policy in Iraq - C-Span 3 Now.

[Connie_Corleone]

Senate Committee
U.S. Policy Toward Iraq
Foreign Relations
Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
ID: 196115 - 01/10/2007 - 2:30 - No Sale

Biden, Joseph R. Jr. U.S. Senator, D-DE

O'Hanlon, Michael E. Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, Foreign Policy Studies

Marr, Phebe Senior Fellow (2004-2006), U.S. Institute of Peace

Pillar, Paul R. Visiting Professor, Georgetown University, Security Studies Program

Said, Yahia Research Officer, London School of Economics, Centre for the Study of Global Governance


http://www.c-span.org/watch/index.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS

[Greeby]

1. Keep me updated

Watching Judiciary with Bob Barr testifying on data-mining.

Condiliar is up before this committee tomorrow :popcorn:

[Connie_Corleone]

2. I'll kick this up.

Hopefully someone else will update. I'm at work and won't be able to do it.

[Oilwellian]

4. Where are you watching the Judiciary hearing?

Thanks!

[Connie_Corleone]

5. The judiciary hearing is on C-Span 1

[Connie_Corleone]

3. "Dramatic escalation in sectarian violence."

"Deaths of Iraqi civilians are worse now than under Saddam with the exception of the killing of the Kurds and the Iran/Iraq war."

I don't know who is talking. I'm listening to C-Span radio.

"Iraq is looking more like Bosnia."

[A-Schwarzenegger]

6. 3 of the 4 panelists were insane.

The only guy who seemed to have any connection with reality
was Said, the guy from the London School of Economics, who
painted a bleak picture. Marr reminded me of Jeane Kirkpatrick,
referring to the "Iraqis" as "schizophrenic" when it comes to
foreign influence. O'Hanlon is an optimistic simpleton. With
respect to the billion dollar job program, he said he didn't
care if it went toward paying Iraqis for whitewashing the same
fence ten times, as long as the money wasnt funneled to Al
Qaeda. Pillar is an idiot, but at least he had little to say.
Said's main message was that portraying the situation as a
simple Sunni-Shia conflict is woefully simplistic, that the]
reality is a fragmentation so severe it is difficult to even
identify all the factions.