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Iraq Study Group

In November 2006 the Iraq Study Group, a ten-member bipartisan commission, released its long-awaited report, finding that;

O U.S. forces seem to be caught in a mission that has no foreseeable end.

O Sustained increases in U.S. troop levels would not solve the fundamental cause of violence in Iraq, which is the absence of national reconciliation. . . if the Iraqi government does not make political progress, "all the troops in the world will not provide security."

O The report concluded that the war in Iraq should be internalized, and U.S. troops, except for imbedded advisors, withdrawn by spring of 2008.

In January 2007, President Bush said the report had "some really very interesting proposals," then proceeded to ask for the deployment of 20,000 more troops, whether Congress agreed or not.

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