Reaction to the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group was generally positive in Washington, D.
Details of the Iraq Study Group's upcoming report are beginning to show up in the media.
Mr. LEON PANETTA (Iraq Study Group): There's no question that this has been a divisive issue.
Immediately before his appointment, Gates was a member of the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group.
Mr. JAMES BAKER (Co-Chairman, Iraq Study Group): Where I think we're really missing the boat is Syria.
Reaction now to the Iraq Study Group's report from Iraq's ambassador to the United States, Samir Sumaidaie.
Alan Simpson and William Perry were members of the Iraq Study Group and helped write the panel's report.
The current President Bush met with the Iraq Study Group yesterday and said it was a good session.
Mr. JAMES BAKER (Co-chair, Iraq Study Group): We're going to come with some rather specific and detailed recommendations.
Then, there are the admirers of the blue-ribbon Iraq Study Group chaired by James Baker and Lee Hamilton.
He said he now supports a bipartisan bill that embraces the findings of the independent Iraq Study Group.
Baker fleshed on his view in the Iraq Study Group's recommendations that were published immediately after the elections.
The current US strategy of staying the course was no longer viable, Iraq Study Group leader James Baker said.
Mr. LEE HAMILTON (Co-chair, Iraq Study Group): The government of Iraq must act.
If you look at some of the things we suggested in the Iraq study group report, they're doing those things.
By this analysis, the Iraq Study Group report rewards terrorism and allows a Baathist master plan to take shape on schedule.
Although the bipartisan Iraq Study Group recommended diplomatic engagement with the two countries last month, the Bush administration has ruled that out.
"We've now heard from the Iraq Study Group, but we need the White House to become the Iraq Results Group, " Clinton said.
Gone, for the moment at least, is "surrender" - the leitmotif, if not the stated purpose, of Jim Baker's Iraq Study Group.
Mr. Gates was, until his nomination, a member of the Iraq Study Group and, presumably, was comfortable with the thrust of its findings.
An outstanding example of this sort of cross-partisan nonsense was the 2006 bipartisan Iraq Study Group's recommendations to then president George W. Bush.
The elder Bush's CIA Director Robert Gates has been nominated to be secretary of defense after serving several months on the Iraq Study Group.
In addition to the Iraq Study Group, he will soon be receiving reports from his own staff, the Pentagon and the National Security Agency.
Everyone from the Iraq Study Group, to even Bush recognized -- and if Bush recognizes it, man, it's really got to be out there.
The co-chairmen of the Iraq Study Group are former Secretary of State James Baker III, a Republican, and former Indiana Rep. Lee Hamilton, a Democrat.
And everyone is waiting for the Iraq Study Group to come up with a face-saving way for Congress and the White House to come together.
Mr Bush also ignored the managed withdrawal advocated by the Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan commission co-chaired by James Baker, a former secretary of state.
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Mr Gates's membership of the much-heralded Iraq Study Group means that he will have a vested interest in getting the report accepted and acted on.
Panel members on the Iraq Study Group said their plan didn't offer any guarantees, but that it would certainly improve the chances for success in Iraq.
Finally, there will be two days of deliberations by the Iraq Study Group, co-chaired by former Secretary of State James Baker and former Rep. Lee Hamilton.
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