No Surprise - the ISG is a dud

So what does the ISG suggest?
Panel To Urge Pressure On Iraq
Do they think their report will help?

Much debate in e-mail exchanges among the most outspoken advisers to the study group focused on whether adding troops would help. But most feared that bringing in the large numbers required would break the military, lead to a surge in U.S. deaths and do nothing to better protect civilians.

In the end, the experts did not agree on sending additional forces beyond military advisers for the Iraqi national army. They seemed certain that Bush would reject most of their recommendations and that few could work anyway.

"Very early on, the notion of achieving some sort of victory didn't take," said Chas W. Freeman Jr., a former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia. "So if victory is not possible and not feasible, even if you could define it, then what you're left with is to find some way to mitigate defeat."

So the real conclusion of the ISG: we can't even define "victory" much less achieve it. So America's finest will continue to die in order to "mitigate defeat". What the fuck does "mitigate defeat" mean when we can't define victory or achieve it even if we could.