Mystical Politics Paparazi: Iraq Study Group

Thursday, November 30, 2006

Iraq Study Group

Pullback of Combat Troops...It appears to me the sceptical person involved in the deliberations probably has it right. Things are changing minute by minute now.

al-Maliki not showing up at King George's request. al-Sadr holding political talks with Christians and Sunni's. Everybody has their own ideas as to what is going to be done but amazingly nobody is paying attention to what the Iraqi want done.

The rethoric has been flying for months for the Iraqi to stand up... Well, I think they just maybe are fixin' to do just that. With things changing so fast it makes this much daunted Iraq Study Group an exercise in futility... - fc

Iraq Panel to Recommend Pullback of Combat Troops

By David E. Sanger and David S. Cloud

Published: November 30, 2006

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 - The bipartisan Iraq Study Group reached a consensus on Wednesday on a final report that will call for a gradual pullback of the 15 American combat brigades now in Iraq but stop short of setting a firm timetable for their withdrawal, according to people familiar with the panel’s deliberations.

The report leaves unstated whether the 15 combat brigades that are the bulk of American fighting forces in Iraq would be brought home, or simply pulled back to bases in Iraq or in neighboring countries.

"I think we've played a constructive role," one person involved in the committee's deliberations said, "but from the beginning, we've worried that this entire agenda could be swept away by events."

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