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By Ellen Goodman | Friday, December 8, 2006 | The Boston Globe

Another piece on the report of the Iraq Study Group, this time from the angle of the recent election that gave the Democratic Party leadership control over Congessional activities. Goodman points out that the bipartisan commission under Baker and Hamilton agreed on recommendataions that agree almost perfectly with the thinking of Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and most of the new Subcommittee chairs. Thus, despite the seeming indifference of The Decider, this agenda is almost certain to drive a major effort in Congress to extricate US forces from Iraq, if necessary by slashing funding for war.

There is also a recommendation to accept the fact of deep, age-old sectarian hatred in Iraq. That inescapable fact leads logically to only one outcome for this ill-considered war of choice: a negotiated partition of that tortured ‘nation’ – which was designed arbitrarily by the British long ago, ignoring these dvisions with classic hubris – into three parts: one each for Shia, Sunnis and Kurds with some way of making The Big Oil Money flow equitably into each. If anybody has a better idea, I’d like to hear it. Michael B has been saying this for four years, y’know…BS

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/12/08/what_will_congress_do/