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Viewing cable 06SANTIAGO2587, CHILE MEDIA REACTION - IRAQ

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
06SANTIAGO2587 2006-12-18 18:46 2011-08-24 16:30 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Santiago 
VZCZCXYZ0020
RR RUEHWEB

DE RUEHSG #2587 3521846
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 181846Z DEC 06
FM AMEMBASSY SANTIAGO
TO SECSTATE WASHDC 0572
 
UNCLAS SANTIAGO 002587 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR R/MR, I/PP, WHA/BSC, WHA/PDA, INR/IAA, PM 
 
STATE FOR INR/R/MR, NEA/IR 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: KMDR KPAO OPRC PTER IZ IR CI
SUBJECT: CHILE MEDIA REACTION - IRAQ 
 
ΒΆ1. On December 18, business and financial "Diario Financiero" (circ. 
30,000) carried a column by international commentator Libardo 
Buitrago entitled "Iraq: Peace Options."  Quote: 
 
"It took President Bush three years...to realize that the war in 
Iraq cannot be separated from the regional context....  The Baker 
Commission concluded that the complex equation today must include 
Syria and Iran.... To realists, Iran and Syria are potential allies 
in the stabilization of Iraq; to many Republicans that would mean 
yielding to terrorists.  Bush does not need to implement what the 
(commission) report recommends, but it does offer him a chance to 
correct the path of his unsuccessful war strategy -- one that 
already has cost him an unprecedented decrease in popularity and a 
tough electoral defeat in Congress, and could cost his party the 
2008 Presidential election." 
 
KELLY