A Higher Power: James Baker puts Bush’s Iraq policy into rehab
Posted in H.L. News, Main Blog (All Posts) on August 8th, 2006 9:30 am by HL
Somebody better slap that boy upside the head…
A Higher Power: James Baker puts Bush’s Iraq policy into rehab.
Washington Monthly
Excerpt
Since March, Baker, backed by a team of experienced national-security hands, has been busily at work trying to devise a fresh set of policies to help the president chart a new course in–or, perhaps, to get the hell out of–Iraq. But as with all things involving James Baker, there’s a deeper political agenda at work as well. “Baker is primarily motivated by his desire to avoid a war at home–that things will fall apart not on the battlefield but at home. So he wants a ceasefire in American politics,” a member of one of the commission’s working groups told me. Specifically, he said, if the Democrats win back one or both houses of Congress in November, they would unleash a series of investigative hearings on Iraq, the war on terrorism, and civil liberties that could fatally weaken the administration and remove the last props of political support for the war, setting the stage for a potential Republican electoral disaster in 2008.
