Iraq panel to shape U.S. policy despite tepid embrace
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Despite a tepid embrace from the White House, the Iraq Study Group's recommendations will help shape President George W. Bush's new policy if only because of their popular support, analysts said on Wednesday.
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It may take decades to change anti-American feelings around the world that have been aggravated by war in Iraq, U.S. policy toward Israel and America's "sex and violence" culture, the State Department official in charge of dealing with the U.S. image abroad said Thursday.
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The independent, bipartisan panel studying U.S. policy in Iraq has unanimously agreed to a report that will call for a gradual pullback of American combat troops in Iraq but stops short of setting a firm timetable for withdrawal, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.
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Text of a letter from the co-chairmen of the Iraq Study Group accompanying their report on how to revamp U.S. policy in Iraq:
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Condoleezza Rice's appearance Wednesday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was downright tame compared with the reception she got last month, when she sat before the same committee to explain President Bush's "way forward" in Iraq.
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A bipartisan, independent panel studying the war in Iraq presented its findings this morning to President Bush, who said he would take their ideas Âvery seriouslyÂ and act on them Âin a timely fashion.Â
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A high-level panel called for sweeping reform of the United Nations in the wake of bitter divisions over the U.S.-led war in Iraq, with proposals to expand the Security Council and to give the powerful body clear guidelines for authorizing preventive military attacks.
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President Bush faces the question of whether he is ready to embrace the spirit of the Iraq Study Group report and produce a new approach of his own.
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President Bush's policy in Iraq "is not working," a high-level commission said Wednesday in a blunt, bleak assessment that called for an urgent diplomatic attempt to stabilize the country and allow withdrawal of most U.S. combat troops by early 2008.
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Seeking to shore up the U.S. military commitment in Iraq, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki must charm an increasingly skeptical Congress that is wary of his criticism of Israel and concerned about rising violence in Baghdad.
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The Iraq Study Group will recommend the U.S. military shift away from combat and toward more of a support role in Iraq over the next year or so, a source familiar with the panel's recommendations said.
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The United States should begin to withdraw forces from combat and launch a diplomatic push, including Iran and Syria, to prevent "a slide toward chaos" in Iraq, an elite panel recommended on Wednesday.
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The Iraq Study Group has its say. Now Bush has to figure out what to do next
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The chairmen of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group today urged President Bush to follow their full slate of recommendations, as one key Senator criticized the panel's report as a recipe for defeat.
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The Bush administration should expect tougher oversight of its war-on-terrorism strategy and perhaps some all-expense-paid tickets to Iraq to help train the corrupt police force there, the incoming chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Wednesday.
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The White House is expected to give Congress an interim report on progress in Iraq showing mixed progress.
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The Bush administration signaled differences Tuesday with some of the recommendations of a commission exploring new approaches in Iraq but said there was support for many of the proposals as well.