Via Allahpundit: The Iraq Surrender Group’s report is a big hit — with all the people whose opinion means the most to the Dem/LLL/MSM Axis:

BAGHDAD, 7 December (IRIN) – Insurgents and militias in Iraq on Thursday welcomed the recommendations made in a report by the Iraq Study Group that indicated that US policy in Iraq was not working and that its troops should be pulled out earlier than current projections suggest.

“The withdrawal of US troops from Iraq has been one of our foremost demands since 2004. The presence of foreign troops in our country is the reason why we continue to fight, resulting in the killing of thousands of Iraqis,” said Abu Baker, a member of Sunni insurgent group Jeyshi Muhammad (Muhammad’s Army) who declined to give his full name.

The report’s main points are to engage Iraq’s neighbours, chiefly Syria and Iraq, in a “new diplomatic offensive”; a renewed and unified sense of political purpose among US citizens; and increased pressure on the Iraqi government and its security forces to take control of the country and facilitate a faster exit for US troops.

For militants and insurgents in Iraq, the report represents hope that the Americans will finally leave, and sooner than expected.

“This report just makes us stronger in our beliefs and reinforces our view that the best choice to be taken by the United States is to leave Iraq soon,” he added.

And so the national humiliation continues, enabled by a President whose sudden loss of backbone can only lead to plenty more of the same. Think it can’t get worse? Wait’ll we all get a gander at Condi donning “appropriate” clothing to negotiate our surrender with the Axis of Evil Iranians and Syrians. Meanwhile, here’s a hot news item for you to ponder while we await the next installment of Lickspittles In Charge: From Superpower To Doormat In One Easy War:

Frustrated that its recommendations have not been accepted and implemented by President Bush after nearly twenty-seven hours, the Iraq Study Group filed documents with the Federal Election Commission today to create a presidential campaign committee.

“The media sent a clear message yesterday,” said former Secretary of State James Baker, speaking on behalf of the group. “Our press conference was carried live on every major network, all of the cable news networks, and even on MSNBC. Whatever President Bush is doing, they want leaders who will do the opposite, and that’s exactly what we intend to do.”

It’s (not) funny ’cause it’s (practically) true. John has another depressingly accurate post that sort of goes with the above, ratcheer.

Update! Suck on it, baby:

CAIRO, Egypt – Many Arabs on Thursday interpreted an American advisory panel’s bleak assessment of President Bush’s Iraq policies as proof of Washington’s failure in the Middle East.

“This report is a recognition of the limitation of American power,” said Abdel Moneim Said, head of Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic studies in Cairo. “In the short term, America will highly suffer the loss of its reputation and credibility in the region.”

Mustafa Bakri, an outspoken critic of the U.S. and editor of the Egyptian tabloid Al-Osboa, told a state-run television show that the report indicated “the end of America.”

Bakri, who supports Syrian President Bashar Assad and the former regime of Saddam Hussein, urged Arab countries to “capture the moment as America now is in its weakest period.”

The Iraq Study Group’s report was the top headline in many Arab newspapers on Thursday, including the Egyptian opposition daily Al-Wafd, which declared: “Bush confesses defeat in Iraq.”

“Practically, this means that this is the real end of Bush rule, his policies and the neo-conservative groups. This also means that the coming two years left in his term will be a period of a political vacuum,” he wrote.

“Al-Qaida must smell victory, but its a negative victory that comes from the defeat of America in Iraq,” Said of the Al-Ahram center said.

What a way to commemorate Pearl Harbor Day. Thanks, liberals! Thanks, George!

Updated update! Via Gatewaypundit, a fitting summary:

A commander-in-chief who refuses to command. A Congress that is unable to govern. A political class that has lost the will to defeat America’s enemies. An entire subset of our own nation that actively works for her defeat.

Don’t miss the CS Lewis quote at the end, too.

Update to the updated update! Perhaps you liberal-media carrion-fowl could at least have the decency not to actually smack your lips over the exsanguinated corpse of American prestige and influence? Or is that asking too much of you worthless blatherskites?

Updates, forsooth! Excellent, excellent post by Jules Crittenden:

The pressure now, no matter how the Iraq Study Group cares to couch it, is for abandonment. To pull out slowly. To ask a lot of American soldiers not to die for a cause, but to die for a mistake. The mistake of giving up. To go hat in hand to enemies who know they only have to wait in order to win.

This is beginning to feel like another part of war I had not experienced, something as terrible as all the other parts, the death and the loss, because of what it means for those things. I know enough about history to know this is what happens, maybe more often than not.

So is this going to be the betrayal part?

Just read it, whydon’tcha.