So that`s it? We sit back and wait for Jim Baker?

[democrank]

Jim Baker might issue a report "sometime in December." That`s the plan? We just sit back and wait until then? Wait because maybe, just maybe the Iraq Study Group might figure out a solution? Are these folks experts on the Middle East? On Iraq? On war? Will there be another commission appointed to study their findings and get back to us by...say...Easter? Sandra Day O`Connor is a good person for sure, but how did she get to sit on that panel?

I can hardly bear this. Iraq is in such a horrific mess and we`re going to sit back for a few weeks and wait for a report. Maybe this is how things are done if your kids are safe instead of lying in a Baghdad ditch with their legs blown off. Maybe a solution isn`t all that urgent if your son is trying out for a college track team instead of sitting in a wheelcahir at Walter Reed. Color me hysterical, but I think this is enough of an emergency that Democratic members of Congress ought to be lined up on the Capitol steps demanding action. Immediate action. No partying, no celebrations, just 24/7 pressure until some major changes are made in Iraq. Nail Bush`s lying carcass to the wall and say, "Do something. Right now."

It seems nearly obscene to me that we`re watching roundtable discussions and little mini debates on this failed Iraq policy. People are dying. Dying as I`m typing this. Dying as you`re reading this and more will die tomorrow. We can not treat this as though it was just another issue on the agenda. It`s an emergency, a matter of life and death. I`m not interested in Poppy Bush`s rescue wagon driven by James Baker. I want those troops out of harm`s way before any more of them are maimed for life. That`s what matters to me, not a rescue attempt for George Bush`s legacy.

[4morewars]

1. From your mouth...

to god's ear.

[Solly Mack]

2. People dying never bothered those who enabled this mess

and it's not bothering them now

It never will bother them

All they are concerned about is saving their own asses and saving the business deals

"WE", the people - ALL the people around the world - do not matter. We're expendable to their delusions of greatness.

[partylessinOhio]

3. I agree we cannot and should not wait. But I'm not hopeful at all.

I have just watched a very stupid woman stand in the Senate and stumble all over herself not knowing what to say until someone off camera put papers in front of her to read. That Senator was Hutchinson from Texas. Then Feinstein got up and royally kissed her rump saying she was such a great chairman and all the Democrats were just so happy, happy with the bi-partisan cooperation.

We still have a mess in congress. All this playing nice is just as bad as the drubbing the Democrats have taken for the last six years.

The Senators don't seem to be concerned that there is a war going on that should never have started and most of them authorized it.

[hopein08]

4. Which Democrats have said that we're waiting for Baker?

I think I royally missed something here. I keep hearing about how we're waiting but I never heard who said that we are!