The Baker Report

CSKendrick of Daily Kos takes a look at the up-coming Baker Report in a very interesting piece.     Let's go take a peek, shall we?

 

Iraq: Handicapping the Baker Report, Part One
by cskendrick
Wed Nov 22, 2006

We're probably not going to get the Baker Report for a while. However, that's no reason not to take a peek at the working papers being used by the think tank that's feeding the Baker Commission its information.

Alan Schwartz's "Scenarios for the Insurgency in Iraq" is done for United States Institute of Peace, which happens to be the institution backing up the Iraq Study Group.

...The commission is headed by former Secretary of State James A. Baker, III, a close friend of the Bush family, and former Indiana Democratic Congressman Lee Hamilton, who also cochaired the 9/11 Commission, and is being coordinated through the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), a government-funded think tank.

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More Marines May Be Needed In War

By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - The Marine Corps may need to increase in size to sustain deployments to
Iraq and
Afghanistan without sacrificing needed training or putting undue stress on the corps, the new Marine commandant said Wednesday.

At a breakfast meeting with reporters, Gen. James Conway also warned that it could take years to adequately train and equip the Iraqi security forces — longer, perhaps, "than the timeline that we probably feel ... our country will support."

"This is tough work, it doesn't happen overnight," and patience by the American people will be needed, he said. On the plus side, he said Marines he's talked to in recent days are encouraged by the progress they are seeing among Iraqi forces.      More From Yahoo News