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Kerry Wants Out of Iraq; Bush Wants to Bomb Iran | 22 comments (22 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Arnaud de Borchgrave and Neocons (4.00 / 4)

The Fifth Horseman
By Arnaud de Borchgrave - Benador Associates

WASHINGTON D.C. March 15, 2006 -- As President Bush's closest advisers enter their fifth year of 16- to 20-hour days, physical and mental exhaustion appears to have produced a dearth of geopolitical thinking. Bush still sees translucent light at the end of the Iraqi tunnel he led the coalition into three years ago. Others are afraid this maybe the search party looking for survivors -- or Iran's Aladdin lamp showing Shiite Iraq how to rub it for a wish back to the dark ages of religious obscurantism.

To sort it all out, Congress has asked veteran bipartisan geopolitical thinkers James A. Baker III, the former Secretary of State, and Lee H. Hamilton, former chairman of the House International Relations Committee, and co-chairman of the 9/11 Commission, to lead an "Iraq Study Group" of 10 prominent Republicans and Democrats.

With the president's "war on terror" ratings down to 36%, the Iraqi "rethink" group came not a moment too soon. Much bigger threats than civil war in Iraq already loom on horizon 2007. Israel is marking its new frontier with a 420-mile, $2.2 billion barrier that leaves Hamas free to cobble together a state from the patchwork of land left, sans East Jerusalem, which can be neither viable nor contiguous, as pledged by Bush. Intifada III is now only a matter of time -- with rockets and missiles over the wall.

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by Oui on Wed Apr 5th, 2006 at 09:13:13 AM EST

Re: Arnaud de Borchgrave and Neocons (4.00 / 3)

As President Bush's closest advisers enter their fifth year of 16- to 20-hour days

I think the author exagerrates a tad. Is it possible to go even a full month on only 4 hours sleep a night? At the least, we know from various stories over the years that Bush himself spends more time exercising than he does presidenting. I don't doubt that his major advisors have no life whatsoever outside of their jobs, being in a position of extreme responsibility is like that, but this suggestion that they work superhuman hours is just silly.

by Shalimar (srbaxley@yahoo.com) on Wed Apr 5th, 2006 at 09:40:02 AM EST
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Re: Arnaud de Borchgrave and Neocons (4.00 / 3)

Well, we know for certain Bush isn't putting in those hours.

John McCain hates my wife because she's a "gook."

by Steven D on Wed Apr 5th, 2006 at 10:22:09 AM EST
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Re: Arnaud de Borchgrave and Neocons (4.00 / 2)

Definitely, I still remember a story from 2004 which stated that Bush couldn't pay attention for more than half an hour at a time and they only had 2-3 hours of meetings a week because he wasn't interested in more. If true, it is shocking how bad a president he is just based on his lack of interest in doing the job, before you start taking into account all of his administration's failures.

by Shalimar (srbaxley@yahoo.com) on Wed Apr 5th, 2006 at 11:21:13 AM EST
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