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Article: IRAQ - Baker-Hamilton Panel For Radical Change.
- Article from:
- APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East
- Article date:
- December 11, 2006
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The Iraq Study Group (ISG) on Dec. 6 called for a radical change of course in US policy, saying conditions in Iraq were "grave and deteriorating". Its report set out how the US was spending $2 bn a week on an unpopular conflict in which nearly 100 Americans were dying monthly. The ISG said that, more than three years after the US-led invasion, its forces were stretched "nearly to the breaking point". On Dec. 6 alone, 10 US soldiers were killed in Iraq.
Challenging many of the tenets of President Bush's foreign policy, the bipartisan 10-member ISG said a dramatic change of course was needed to avoid "severe consequences". It warned: "A slide toward chaos could ...