US media asks: Will Bush heed the Iraq report?

[Kadie]

US media asks: Will Bush heed the Iraq report?
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - US newspapers gave banner headline coverage to the Iraq Study Group report, but worried that President George W. Bush may find its tough recommendations too difficult to embrace.

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Excerpts of the report had been leaked to the news media for days, and Time and Newsweek magazines had already featured it on their covers -- with Newsweek asking: "Will Bush listen?"

The report "might well be titled 'The Realist Manifesto,'" read the main Washington Post analysis piece.

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The Los Angeles Times said the report had an "unusual goal: persuading President Bush to change his mind about staying the course in Iraq."

"It's one thing for people inside the administration to tell the president what to do," an unnamed Iraq Study Group adviser told the newspaper. "But for an outside group to say, 'Here, son, let us give you a road map for your foreign policy,' that's remarkable."

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A story for the McClatchy newspaper chain was more blunt. "The question now is whether President Bush will listen," it read.


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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061207/pl_afp/usiraqreportpress_061207142637

[European Socialist]

1. Ex ISG member Gates is new Defense Chief. That's a good clue.

[Arkansas Granny]

2. My guess is that Bush will talk about it, he will wait until his other

"studies" are complete and then he'll do what he damn well pleases because, he is the decider, after all. IMO, this is all just window dressing to make it look as though Bush has considered all the options before he makes a decision. I think the decision has already been made to "stay the course" until we get control of the Iraqi oil and then we will declare victory and leave. Unless and until we get a Democratic president who is not at the beck and call of the corporations, I don't foresee any real changes to the current policy.