Iraq Study Group report is out
Here is the story.
Bush says he will take it seriously.
He also urged members of Congress to take the report seriously, but he said that neither Congress nor his administration were likely to agree with every proposal by the study group.
Bush did not provide any details of the recommendations, but some of them have been outlined by knowledgeable sources in recent days.
Robert Kaplan writes in the Atlantic Monthly,
The Administration should co-opt this report—with adjustments, of course. Once again, ignoring some of the sound bites, read completely it is not an especially hostile document from the viewpoint of the Administration. It cries out to be partially plagiarized by the President. If he does not do this, then he will be truly on his own, utterly isolated. The report says that the main benefit of gradually reducing our military footprint in Iraq will be to free up forces to secure Afghanistan. For it isn’t just Iraq that is in the balance, but Afghanistan, too.