ISG: “Ask Iran and Syria to Help Us with Iraq.” Why Would They? Also, Bailing Junior’s Ass Out Again.

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The “Iraq Study Group”… organized to seek a solution to getting us out of Iraq… released it’s report on Wednesday. Among the recommendations: talking to Iran and Syria, two of Iraq’s neighbors contributing to the instability in Iraq, and convince them that it is in their best interest to have a peaceful and stable Iraq as their neighbor.

Then I heard someone state the obvious yesterday… so obvious I hadn’t considered it…

What is more in Iran’s interest:

Helping the U.S. create a stable Democratic ally next door that might side with America against them?

OR…

A United States bogged down in Iraq, wasting precious resources trying to bring it under control.

Are you feeling that someone hasn’t thought this through yet? You’re not alone. But of course, as un-thought-out as that course might seem, President Bush is always able to come up with something even dumber, saying we will not “negotiate with our enemies”… to which ISG co-chair James Baker pointed out the obvious: Of course you negotiate with your enemies. You don’t need to “negotiate with your friends“. Duh! President Bush has suggested that he has no intention of leaving Iraq until it is a stable democratic nation. That’s a problem… and not just the obvious one.

As pointed out so clearly above, “Why on Earth would Iran and Syria want to *help* us do something so clearly not in their best interests?” Which got me thinking: “What would make it within their interest?” And I came up with this enticing option: Threaten to abandon Iraq and leave it a mess. Threaten to pull out and leave a nasty civil war on their doorstep, with the potential of spilling out over its borders and destabilize their own countries… the exact reasoning we are using for why they should help us. But all they hear now is “we won’t leave until Iraq is fixed”, which gives them NO incentive to help us. But if we use this mess as LEVERAGE, threatening to leave this hot steaming pile in their backyard for THEM to clean up… thus turning the tables 180′ so that WE are the ones freed up while THEY waste precious resources to bring Iraq under control, THEN maybe they might suddenly feel the need to help us.

But as long as Chicken George (with apologies to Alex Haley) is going around telling them that we’ll never leave Iraq while it’s still a mess, the ball is completely in their court. Maybe if President Bush used his drug-addled, raisin-shriveled little brain for something other than propping up his cowboy hat, he might realize that HIS OWN POLICIES AND IDEOLOGY are why we are in this mess to begin with, and his insistence on “staying the course” are the reason WHY we suddenly need an emergency “study group”, consisting of a number of his father’s political friends/advisers, to bail his ass out now.

Speaking of his father, former President George H.W. Bush broke down in tears Tuesday while giving a speech before the Florida State Legislature in honor of his son Jeb, Governor of Florida. Several people has suggested that the former President sobbed, not so much for what his son Jeb had overcome, but in recognition of just how badly his son George W had tarnished the family name, destroyed their reputation, and likely annihilated any future political aspirations “the good son” Jeb might of had, knowing that no one would ever trust another Bush as President ever again. I’m sure for Poppy Bush, it doesn’t seem particularly fair that the son that studied hard and earned his political heights on his own talent should have his future political aspirations dashed thanks to the incompetence and stupidity of his irresponsible big brother… the son who needed Daddy to bail him out his entire life… from a succession of failed oil-drilling projects, and cashing in on the family name to become Governor, and now, bailing his Presidency out to save the nation from fiscal and military ruin. Listen to Poppy’s speech carefully and note what words bring him to tears: “he didn’t whine and didn’t complain”, “how a man handles failure” and a note on “decency”.

I’m sure to Poppy, it’s just not fair for Jeb. Their mother, Barbara, was noted as once saying that she was “surprised” that George W became President first because “they always thought it would be Jeb”. Jeb had been in politics longer and showed more promise growing up than his juvenile-delinquent brothers, George, Neil and Marvin.

Postscript: I feel a sense of poetic justice in the fact that two of Poppy’s friends, Sandra Day O’Connor and James A Baker III… two people INSTRUMENTAL in stopping the 2000 Florida recount and getting George W appointed President… had to be brought in as part of the Iraq Study Group to bail juniors ass out now. O’Connor was rumored to have said, “I hope Gore doesn’t become President because I plan to retire” before the case came before the Supreme Court, and Baker headed up the Florida legal team that demanded a stop to the recount. I wonder if they ever think to themselves now that if they hadn’t helped get Junior elected, we wouldn’t be in this mess they were having to bail him out of now?

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