BUSH: Help Me Daddy!

[kpete]

Baker surfaces as key adviser to Bush on Iraq


James Baker (Agence France-Presse)


President Bush has acceded to his father's urging and has made former Secretary of State James Baker a leading adviser on Iraq.

Administration sources said Mr. Baker, head of the congressionally mandated Iraq Study Group, has been discussing with the president recommendations on an exit strategy that could begin after the November elections. They said Mr. Baker's approach to Iraq differs sharply from that of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

The sources said Mr. Baker has maintained an extremely low profile and slips in and out of Baghdad without fanfare. They said that unlike the elder Bush's national security adviser, Brent Scowcroft, Mr. Baker has avoided stepping on the toes of such senior officials as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who has been wary of Mr. Baker's access to the president.

"The president has understood that he needs a trusted outsider without any personal stake in U.S. policy on Iraq," an administration source said. "Jim Baker also has a lot of clout and credibility on the Hill."

more at:
http://www.insightmag.com/Media/MediaManager/Baker.htm

[Swamp Rat]

1. Baker is part of the problem in the first place.

[partylessinOhio]

2. How many OLD relics is * going to drag back into this mess?

[Solly Mack]

3. Baker's never been away long enough to "surface"

2000

- Bush Campaign Obsever/ Selection 2000
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0011/09/se.03.html



2001

- Report on Energy Security Argues US Needs to Review Policy on Iraq

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&startpos=700#complete_timeline_of_the_2003_invasion_of_iraq_77



2002


- Department of Justice counsel

STATEMENT OF JAMES A. BAKER COUNSEL FOR INTELLIGENCE POLICY
BEFORE THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE UNITED STATES SENATE CONCERNING
PROPOSALS TO AMEND THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT OF 1978

http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2002_hr/073102baker.html

White House Dismissed '02 Surveillance Proposal
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/25/AR2006012502270.html



2003


- Special Envoy to Iraq on the issue of Iraqi Debt
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/12/20031205-3.html

Presidential Envoy James Baker to Visit Tbilisi, Georgia
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/07/20030703-15.html


2004


- Still Special Envoy to Iraq on Iraqi debt
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/01/20040119.html



2005


- To Poland for Bush
http://poland.usembassy.gov/poland/presidential_delegation.html

BP Global - Former U.S. Secretary of State James A Baker, III to Chair Independent Safety Review Panel

http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=2012968&contentId=7011424

BP Names Former Secretary of State Baker to Chair Safety Review Panel

http://www.bakerbotts.com/infocenter/newsroom/Detail.aspx?id=2a7a525a-f8d8-4509-bdca-03e9b4a60ad1



2006


- Congressionally mandated Iraq Study Group. The group is co-chaired by former Secretary of State James A. Baker III and Lee H. Hamilton

http://cisac.stanford.edu/news/congress_appoints_perry_to_iraq_study_group_20060508/

Larry King interview
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0605/02/lkl.01.html




The James Baker Documents
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20041101/bakerdocs

[LSK]

4. oh goodie! another Carlyse Group WAR PROFITEER

Be prepared for NO CHANGES.

[SpiralHawk]

7. the oil and munitions republicon cronies are getting FILTHY RICH

from this ugly needless oil war based on a pack of Kommander AWOL's lies, and the deaths of our sons and daughters who were lied to...

[butterfly77]

5. I had been waiting to see when he would come from...

out of the background. What took so long did they have to beg him to come to the forefront.

[jazzjunkysue]

6. Baker: The guy with the shovel behind *'s Elephant. Every time.

Baker has always had clean up duty for the little mobster-in-chief. There's nothing new about that.

"Jim Baker also has a lot of clout and credibility on the Hill."
Translates, means, "* Has no clout and credibility on the Hill," but he needs to get some.

[chat_noir]

8. request to the other daddies in America...