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2006-09-14 Home Front: Politix
Baker surfaces as key adviser to Bush on Iraq
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Posted by Steve White 2006-09-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Baker scares the hell out of me. No use for Israel in his realpolitik mideast...
Posted by borgboy 2006-09-14 00:16||   2006-09-14 00:16|| Front Page Top

#2 This fall under the "Be carefull what you ask for" category for the Dems. They wanted a change in direction from Bush, now they will get it and wish Rummy was still calling the shots.
Posted by 49 Pan 2006-09-14 01:22||   2006-09-14 01:22|| Front Page Top

#3 GWB is playing for keeps in the Middle East. My optimistic take is that Baker's current involvement has more to do with paving the way in region for action on Iran.
Posted by Classical_Liberal 2006-09-14 01:23||   2006-09-14 01:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Classical Liberal,

I hope you're correct because Baker does not instill confidence in me either. He's got a fetish for "stability" and I'd rather not go back to the status quo ante. Even with Saddam gone, it would seem hardly worth one American life if the Region totally backslides.
Posted by JDB 2006-09-14 03:19||   2006-09-14 03:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Baker is not the guy I would have chosen under any circumstances. Zero confidence in the backstabbing leaking grandstanding SOB.
Posted by DanNY 2006-09-14 04:52||   2006-09-14 04:52|| Front Page Top

#6 "They said the most important of those allies is Saudi Arabia, which has been highly skeptical of the administration's policy." Yes, well, we all make mistakes. We should have allowed Saddam to take over the Saudi oil fields, and then made him a deal he could not refuse. After he had tamed Saudi clerics.
Posted by Perfesser 2006-09-14 09:05||   2006-09-14 09:05|| Front Page Top

#7 The Saudis must be ecstatic - he is their bitch, after all.

What else he is, well, that's rather hard to say in a forum with a sinktrap. Sometimes I think he was born in the wrong era - he would've been a perfect fit in Huey Long's back room. The kind of political whore and horsetrader the Dhimmicrats love, someone they can "work" with. Color me disgusted with Geo41 for, after years of wheedling and suborning his own son's vision, foisting this dinosaur on W. If he has his fingers in any other cookie jars, Iraq being bad enough, then this is one giant step backward.
Posted by flyover 2006-09-14 09:17||   2006-09-14 09:17|| Front Page Top

#8 I agree with all the comments about Baker.

Who cares?

He got Iraq, not Iran. It's not like there's really a lot he can screw up in Iraq. Sure he'll make sleazeball deal like a donk. Baker is a schmoozer who can get all the parties except Iran to cool their jets about Iraq and buy some calm there, but don't pay too much attention to how he does it. That will open up more running room for dealing with Iran, the real problem. At least, I hope that's the plan.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-09-14 11:24||   2006-09-14 11:24|| Front Page Top

#9 To quote Dave Barry: "This can't be good."
Posted by xbalanke 2006-09-14 12:00||   2006-09-14 12:00|| Front Page Top

#10 A rational take, NS. I got hung up in the priciple vs. pragmatism thing.
Posted by flyover 2006-09-14 12:14||   2006-09-14 12:14|| Front Page Top

#11 Baker, Shmaker, this will not end until we kill Iraqis. That's all they understand. They will grow tired of funerals, believe me.
Changing the dining room chairs will not escape from PC war to viscous inhuman war.
Posted by wxjames 2006-09-14 12:40||   2006-09-14 12:40|| Front Page Top

#12 Out of left field: What if he is consulting Baker because Condi Rice might be up for a promotion? Baker would be a shoe-in as a short-term Secretary of State.

Think of it as Karl Rove's crown jewel: one hour after Hillary announces for president, Dick Cheney announces he is retiring, and Bush nominates Condi Rice as VP. Hillary gets pushed back to page 6.
Posted by Anonymoose 2006-09-14 14:33||   2006-09-14 14:33|| Front Page Top

#13 LOL, Anonymoose! Now that is brilliant. Diabolical and Machiavellian. This is the sort of post that I was talking about... dump the paranoia and think like this, LOL. Simply brilliant.
Posted by flyover 2006-09-14 14:40||   2006-09-14 14:40|| Front Page Top

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