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Ignored by the Bush administration, more
than 500 relatives of 9/11 victims filed suit against Saudi royals and
others. The lawyers the Saudi defense minister hired to fight the 9/11
families? The law firm of Bush family confidante, James A. Baker.
--
Fahrenheit 9/11, by Michael Moore

As revealed by the Los Angeles
Times (41) the administration of President George H. W. Bush
signed a number of "National Security Decision Directives in
1989 ordering closer ties with Baghdad and paving the way
for $1 billion in new aid. Secretary of State James Baker,
after meeting with Iraqi foreign minister Tariq
Aziz in October 1989, intervened personally to support U.S. government loan guarantees to Iraq."
--
America Betrayed, by Rhawn
Joseph, Ph.D.

"It requires only the will to
do so."
--
Dr. Strangelove, directed by Stanley Kubrick
"Political language is
designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable,
and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." --
George Orwell
"Every war when it
comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but
as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac." --
George Orwell
"War is a way of
shattering to pieces materials which might otherwise be used
to make the masses too comfortable and too intelligent." --
George Orwell
"War against a foreign
country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are
going to profit from it." -- George Orwell
"All the war-propaganda,
all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from
people who are not fighting."
-- George Orwell
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(Prepared from the PDF by Tara Carreon,
The American Buddha Online Library Librarian)
The Iraq
Study Group Report
James A.
Baker, III, and Lee H. Hamilton, Co-Chairs
Lawrence S.
Eagleburger,
Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Edwin Meese III
Sandra Day O’Connor, Leon E. Panetta
William J. Perry, Charles S. Robb
Alan K. Simpson
VINTAGE BOOKS
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Contents
Letter from the Co-Chairs ... ix
Executive Summary ... xiii
I. Assessment
A. Assessment
of the Current Situation in Iraq ... 3
1. Security ... 3
2. Politics ... 12
3. Economics ... 22
4. International Support ... 27
5. Conclusions
... 32
B. Consequences of Continued Decline in Iraq ... 33
C. Some Alternative Courses in Iraq ... 37
1.
Precipitate Withdrawal ... 37
2. Staying
the Course ... 38
3. More
Troops for Iraq ... 38
4. Devolution to Three Regions ... 39
D.
Achieving Our Goals ... 40
II. The Way Forward—A New
Approach
A. The External Approach: Building an International Consensus ... 43
1. The New Diplomatic Offensive ... 44
2. The Iraq International Support Group ... 46
3. Dealing with Iran and Syria ... 50
4.
The Wider Regional Context ... 54
B. The Internal Approach: Helping Iraqis Help Themselves ... 59
1.
Performance on Milestones ... 59
2.
National Reconciliation ... 64
3. Security and Military Forces ... 70
4. Police and Criminal Justice
... 78
5. The Oil
Sector ... 83
6. U.S. Economic and Reconstruction Assistance ... 86
7. Budget Preparation, Presentation, and Review ... 90
8. U.S.
Personnel ... 92
9. Intelligence
... 93
Appendices
Overview Map of the Region ... 90
Overview
Map of Iraq ... 100
Administrative Divisions ... 101
Distribution of Religious Groups ... 102
Letter from the Sponsoring Organizations ... 103
Iraq Study Group Plenary Sessions ... 106
Iraq Study Group Consultations ... 107
Expert Working Groups and Military Senior Advisor Panel ... 117
The Iraq
Study Group ... 124
Iraq
Study Group Support ... 142
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