Iraq Study Group: The Art of the Deal
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In exchange for the hawk acceptance of a timetable [of sorts] for withdrawal, the doves have agreed to forgo assigning blame – misfeasance but not malfeasance. Questions: 1) will we be able to get the international support necessary, within the Islamic world and elsewhere without an admission of wrongdoing? Will there be any attempt whatsoever to actually deliver to the Iraqi people any of the economic deliverables which we the American taxpayers bought and paid for? Could the international community freeze the assests of ‘underperforming’ corporations and make them available to an Iraqi government that is a little less the product of American engineering? Or do the Bush crony corporations get to take the money and run?
