Tomgram: Jamail, Emails from the Front Lines of Iraqi Daily Life
Right now, we have on the table a “possible exit strategy” from Iraq — James A. Baker’s Iraq Study Group report — that, once you do the figures, doesn’t get the U.S. even close to halfway out the door by sometime in 2008; and that report is already being rejected by the Republican and neocon hard right; by Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, who continues to plug for some form of “victory” (”The enemy must be defeated…”) on his last lap in Iraq, while still flaying the media for only reporting the “bad news”; by a President who is still on the IED-pitted road to success (”Not only do I know how important it is to prevail, I believe we will prevail…”), has called for three other reviews of Iraq policy (by the Pentagon, National Security Council, and White House) in an attempt to flood Washington with competing recommendations, and is probably on the verge of “surging” 15,000-20,000 more U.S. troops into Baghdad.
