Iraq Study Group, a day late and a penny short! Please read Dahr Jamail`s (indy reporter) reports on the Iraq Study Group. It is a bankrupt, hegemonic effort for oil. People behind the ISG it are the most hawkish, conservative people. People against the war should be condemning it strongly and seeing it for what it is: Dahr states:

``I think basically this report is a smoke screen, an attempt by the U.S. Administration to kind of play the ‘good cop – bad cop’ game and using this rhetoric like oh it’s a ‘grave and deteriorating situation,’ as if this is going to address the problem. And the bottom line about this study group is that it does not talk about any firm dates or numbers for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from that country.

It does not talk about a legitimate government in that country where Iraqis would have real sovereignty. Instead it lays out the importance of oil for U.S. interests in the region and on page 1 of the entire report it talks about the fact that Iraq has the world’s second largest known oil reserves. Then it goes on in other areas of the report to mention very specific things they recommend to be done in order for the U.S. to get their hands on more of that oil.``

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