Bush says he's going to pretty much ignore the Iraq Study Group's findings.
Agence France-Presse:
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush rebuffed key recommendations from the Iraq Study Group but agreed after talks with British Prime Minister Tony Blair to launch a new Middle East peace push.
The embattled US president announced that Blair would soon travel to the region for talks with Israel and the Palestinians and promised "concerted efforts to advance the cause of peace."
A day after getting the heavyweight Iraq commission's stinging report, Bush kept tight conditions on any talks with Iran and Syria and refused to endorse the panel's target date of early 2008 for withdrawing most US combat troops.
"I've always said we'd like our troops out as fast as possible," he said, while insisting on the need to be "flexible and realistic" and tying any change in troop level to advice from US military commanders, as he has in the past.
You know what would be nice? If Bush would explain just what the hell the ISG was suppposed to be for. If he's just going to go ahead and do whatever it is that strikes his fancy, why did we put together a blue ribbon panel to give him advice to ignore?
Let's hope the new congress holds his feet to the fire.
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