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What's the mission of the Iraq Study Group? The mission is to take a fresh-eyes look at the situation in Iraq to see if we can come up with a consensus, a bipartisan approach and advice to the Congress and the Administration. We've talked to a lot of people. We've met with a representative of the Syrian government. We intend to meet with the Iranian government, the Iraqi government and all the people in our government--the President, the Secretaries of Defense and State and the National Security Adviser...
...they were stepping down from Congress this year after being dogged by questions about their relationships with the disgraced lobbyist, who has plead guilty to mail fraud and bribery; Ney has already pleaded guilty to bribery charges, while DeLay has continued to insist he did nothing wrong. But a bipartisan report by the House Committee on Government Reform released Thursday puts the White House at the center of questions about whether the lobbyist improperly influenced its decisions on policy matters, just as he did on Capitol Hill. Here's what we learned from the report report on Abramoff's contacts...
...just assumed that after one congressional probe, a two-years-long bipartisan commission and more solid journalism than even our business has awards for - and that would be a lot - we could all agree that fingers could be safely pointed at at least three entities: the terrorists, for launching the attacks; and both the Clinton and Bush administrations, for acting too timidly to stop them, despite all the warning signs...
...relentlessly derided Senator Hillary Clinton as calculating, overly cautious and lacking true liberal bona fides, she hired an adviser just to deal with them and even demanded that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld resign. Coincidence? Moderate Democrats say it with remorse, conservatives with glee, but the conventional wisdom is bipartisan: progressive bloggers are pushing the Democratic Party so far to the left that it will have no chance of capturing the presidency...
...Despite its "stay the course" message, the Bush Administration may be quietly preparing a change of course, based on the work of a White House-sanctioned bipartisan Iraq Study Group headed up former Secretary of State James Baker III and former House International Relations Committee Chairman Lee Hamilton. Although that group has given no indication of what it will recommend following months of intensive interviews with hundreds of Iraqi and U.S. officials - and it will report only after November's election - it is not constrained by the domestic political limits on the Bush Administration. And the fact that its deliberations...