Thursday, December 07, 2006

The Iraq Study Grownups' Report -- Will Bush accept/admit he was WRONG, WRONG, WRONG?

Well, God bless 'em over at Media Matters! Apparently they read the whole thing...
The Iraq Study Group Report...

The Report's 160 pages ['available at amazon.com, where it's ranked #3!] Media Matters has an article here, listing some Report criticisms of Bush's failed Iraq war... stuff the mainstream-media hasn't covered much, yet...
1) Pentagon's underreporting of violence in Iraq: --For example, on one day in July 2006 there were 93 attacks or significant acts of violence reported. Yet a careful review of the reports for that single day brought to light 1,100 acts of violence...

2) Lack of knowledge regarding insurgency and militias: --After three-and-a-half years in Iraq, the United States does not have an adequate grasp on "the political and military threat to American men and women" stationed there...

3) Shift of troops from Iraq to Afghanistan: --The report discussed... the importance of the situation inside Afghanistan and the renewed threat posed by the Taliban... The situation in Afghanistan has so deteriorated that U.S. troops currently in Iraq may have to be diverted back there...4) Lack of Arabic speakers: --All of our efforts in Iraq, military and civilian, are handicapped by Americans' lack of language and cultural understanding...

5) U.S. considering extending National Guard and Army reserves deployments: --The commission devoted considerable attention to the conflict's detrimental effect on "Army readiness." ...The Army is "now considering breaking its compact with the National Guard and Reserves that limits the number of years that these citizen-soldiers can be deployed..."

6) Spending on Iraq war is subject to little scrutiny: --"The public-interest is not well served by the government's preparation, presentation, and review of the budget for the war in Iraq..." The commission highlighted the administration's persistent use of emergency supplemental appropriations requests to "circumvent the budget process..."

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