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Those who fund and house terrorists just loved the Iraq Study Group's defeatist prescriptions for U.S. policy. Mustafa Bakri, editor of Egypt's Al-Osboa and an apologist for both Saddam Hussein and the terrorist state of Syria, said the ISG report heralded "the end of America" and called on Arabs to "capture the moment as America now is in its weakest period." Syria itself called the report "objective," adding it was "positive in terms of the recommended role that Iraq's neighboring countries can play to achieve security and stability in that country." In other words, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would be delighted to have the U.S. beg him for help. What will he ask in return? That we let him have his way in Lebanon? The Golan Heights on a silver platter? Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert cut through all the silliness by pointing out that "Syria is not about to stop supporting Mideast extremists and Iraq is not linked to the Israel-Palestinian issue." Indeed, the first thing the Baker report seems to have succeeded in doing is energize a lot of Arabs looking to weaken Israel. Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat welcomed the report, saying he hoped "the U.S. administration will translate it into deeds." "The region needs peace, the region needs dialogue and we have always stuck to dialogue toward a comprehensive peace," he said. Peace to too many Arabs, of course, means the end of Israel. Beyond giving new hope to the likes of Hamas, Hezbollah and suicide bombers across the Mideast, the entire Islamofascist movement obviously sees the report as a death warrant for U.S. assertiveness in the name of promoting freedom. Abdel Moneim Said, the head of the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic studies in Cairo, Egypt, chillingly put it this way: "Al-Qaida must smell victory, but it's a negative victory that comes from the defeat of America in Iraq." In Iran, the most threatening spoke in the axis of evil, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said, "The main, important thing is the Americans decide to leave Iraq." But for those to whom we have pledged to support in their hopes of freedom, the report looks a lot different. Mahmoud Othman, a prominent Kurdish member of Iraq's National Assembly, called it "superficial and inaccurate." He noted no Iraqi served on the ISG panel, adding that "it seems those who wrote it have little knowledge about the situation in Iraq . . . they only visited the Green Zone for some days; they did not go to the south or to Kurdistan to ask the people there." What can you say about a commission that doesn't make any serious investigation of the very theater of war it makes "expert" recommendations about - and whose proposals are praised by America's enemies? We'd say it's time to go back to the drawing board - but the ISG never seemed to go there in the first place. 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