Since I’m behind on blogging, in the interest of time I’m going to link to Allah’s link-rich post on the topic of the leaked Rummy memo, which supposedly was submitted to the administration two days before he announced he was going to resign. In a nutshell, Rummy said in the memo that we needed a new strategy in Iraq, because things weren’t going well.
Allah’s got the lowdown on the NYT report – obviously leaked – which discusses recommendations the ISG plans to announce officially in a week.
There’s been a lot of discussion lately about what should be done about the situation in Iraq, with prominent Democrats calling for a “phased redeployment” (that’s fancy talk for cut and run), the Iraq Study Group preparing to submit its recommendations to the President, and the President forming an Iraq policy review group separate from the ISG.
And Gateway Pundit pegs the story accurately:
ST reader Fat Tone sends along this must-read link to a piece written by Newt Gingrich on the much-talked about Baker-Hamilton Commission (aka the Iraq Study Group). Newt’s recommendation? They ought to visit Mount Vernon before coming to any definitive conclusions on what we need to do in Iraq.
Curt at Flopping Aces has done an outstanding job on getting to the bottom of some recent questionable reporting coming from the Associated Press on a story that alleged that 6 Sunni civilians had been burned alive last week during a wave of sectarian violence.
