Posted: 12/12/2006 4:26:37 AM EDT
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The Iraq Study Group was supposed to be a bipartisan panel of prominent Americans dedicated to finding a new path --to what, I don't really know-- on Iraq. It's also known as the Baker-Hamilton Commission because of the names of its two senior members, James A. Baker III and Lee H. Hamilton. Have you taken a look at who was actually assembled to come up with the Plan? James A. Baker, III Lawyer, former Secretary of State Senior partner in the law firm of Baker Botts --which happens to represent Saudi Arabia and several individual Saudi princes. Lee H. Hamilton Lawyer, former congressman Director, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Lawrence S. Eagleburger former Secretary of State Chairman, International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. Lawyer, former Advisor to President Clinton Senior Managing Director, Lazard Frères & Co. LLC Senior Counsel, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP Edwin Meese III Lawyer, former Attorney General Ronald Reagan Chair in Public Policy, The Heritage Foundation Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution Sandra Day O’Connor Lawyer, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court (Retired) Leon E. Panetta Lawyer, former White House Chief of Staff Founder and Director, Panetta Institute William J. Perry former Secretary of Defense Professor, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University Charles S. Robb Lawyer, former Governor of Virginia former U.S. Senator Distinguished Professor of Law & Public Policy, George Mason University School of Law Alan K. Simpson Lawyer, former U.S. Senator |