Title: Democratic Underground Forums - NEWSWEEK: Gingrich Speaks Out Against Administration's Policy in Iraq,
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Just more good cop/bad cop routine by CFR member Gingrich.
Do you think so?
 
I see a Republican Party in disarray, as most of the predictions that were made by the chickenhawks before the war have been shattered by reality.  They broke Iraq, and now they can't fix it.  They have to cover their asses now, and they are struggling to find a graceful exit.  The problem is, there is no graceful exit in sight -- only failure and humiliation.  They are in squirm mode, flopping around like a fish on the dock.  There is no plan behind it all, just one stupid miscalculation after another.  We got drawn into the same trap in Iraq that the Russians were drawn into in Afghanistan.  We're sitting ducks now.  Our adversaries are free to toy with us, on their turf.  Every Iraqi is a potential spy and guerrilla -- Bremer will be unable to sort out friends from foes.
 
Bush, with his dumb bluster, has alienated most of the other nations in the world, including our most important traditional allies, so they have no interest in helping us.  They are probably richly enjoying Bush's comeuppance in Iraq, after enduring so many insults from him.  Bush threw away a tremendous treasure of good will towards America in a very few months -- it was an extraordinary performance in mismanagement, but not a surprising performance based on his track record.
 
Donald Rumsfeld, who can see the handwriting on the wall, no fool he, is trying to distance himself from the fanatics in the Cheney group, using Gingrich as a mouthpiece.  There is a real split within the Republican Party over Mideast policy in general.  Many Republicans are beginning to realize just how unreliable and crazy the neocons are.  After the Iraq fiasco, we can probably now write off the grandiose schemes of the neocons for waging World War IV in five or six other Mideast nations.
 
Dick Cheney is being set up by the media to take the fall for the whole mess -- this much is obvious.  Many of the neocons are now pretending that they had nothing to do with what went wrong.  It was all Cheney's fault, you see.  He made them do it.  And whatever you do, leave Israel out of it.
 
Mideast experts, as opposed to Mideast ideologues, accurately predicted these outcomes before the war -- it was an easy call.
 
I know you think the CFR has a centralized grip on everything.  It's a free country -- that's your privilege. :)  Keep the interesting conspiracy theories coming -- who knows, you might strike gold.
 
----- Original Message -----
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Subject: Re: [CTRL] Gingrich: U.S. Went Off a Cliff in Iraq (DU)

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Just more good cop/bad cop routine by CFR member Gingrich.
 
JR
 
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Subject: [CTRL] Gingrich: U.S. Went Off a Cliff in Iraq (DU)

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This is possibly a huge development -- the Republican Party is starting to come apart at the seams over Iraq.  The neocons will be left holding the bag, and an especially stinking bag it will be.
 
It's not like they weren't warned loudly before the war what would happen.  They did this to themselves.
 
The negative fallout for Israel, which was the hand behind the neocons' hysterical campaign, could be exceptionally severe.  The rage in high American political circles over this mess in Iraq is palpable.
 
 

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NEWSWEEK: Gingrich Speaks Out Against Administration's Policy in Iraq,
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Saying The U.S. Went 'Off a Cliff'

NEW YORK, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- In an exclusive interview with Newsweek, former House speaker Newt Gingrich, a quiet confidant of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, says the U.S. went "off a cliff in Iraq." In the December 15 issue (on newsstands Monday, Dec. 8), Gingrich talks about the shortcomings of the Bush administration's policy in Iraq, saying that "Americans can't win in Iraq. Only Iraqis can win in Iraq."
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Gingrich, a member of the influential Defense Policy Board, argues that the administration has been putting far too much emphasis on a military solution and slighting the political element, report National Security Correspondent John Barry and Assistant Managing Editor Evan Thomas. While he says he's not speaking for the board, it is rare that one of its members voices a dissenting view in public. "The Army's reaction to Vietnam was not to think about it," he says. Rather than absorb the lessons of counterinsurgency, Gingrich says, the Army adopted "a deliberate strategy of amnesia because people don't want to ever do it again." The Army rebuilt a superb fighting force for waging a conventional war. "I am very proud of what Tommy Franks did-up to the moment of deciding how to transfer power to the Iraqis. Then we go off a cliff."
(more)
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/031207/nysu011a_1.html

It isn’t a condemnation, but it is weird nevertheless. What are they up to? I don’t trust this at all.

 
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