Statement on the Iraq Study Group's Possible Recommendations
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Statement on the Iraq Study Group's Possible Recommendations
From news reports today we learned that the Iraq Study Group may issue the recommendation to the President to begin a phased withdrawal of U.S. combat brigades in Iraq beginning next year. This is the worst kind of recommendation that attempts to bargain away success in Iraq. We must have the political resolve to finish the job in Iraq, and I am afraid that this signals a beginning of the end of resolve of the political elite here in Washington, D.C. This is a political recommendation and not a formulation for success in Iraq.
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