Talk:Iraq Study Group

message: Cut from intro:
:The panel had no direct authority to change Iraq policy, but the panel did make policy recommendations. 
I thought that only the President can change U.S. foreign policy. Is this common knowledge, or am I just wrong about this?
Anyway, we're all interesting in what pressure Congress has put and intends to put on Bush. 
Shortly after Congress gave overwhelming bipartisan support to the US invasion, the Democratic Party began saying they thought the invasion was a mistake. They've repeatedly called for a unilatiral U.S. withdrawal ever since. (Correct me if I'm wrong, but their withdrawal suggestion is not predicated on Iraq asking us to leave; they want us to leave whether or not Iraq's government requests us to stay, right?) --Uncle Ed 14:33, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Authority to change foreign policy

message: *...panel members said their mandate was primarily limited to finding a a way to stabilize Iraq alone, (although they could consider the regional context) rather than assessing it in the context of the larger U.S. war against international Islamofascism.  --Uncle Ed 14:56, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Mandate

message: Why is there a citation needed after the first few lines? We don't need to cite the fact that the study group was commisioned by the Congress. Please, someone remove it because it doesn't make sense to cite something that is universally acknowledged. Its not like its some disputed theory. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.6.230.65 (talk) 05:26, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation needed?? 

message: "Iraq is currently undergoing civil war."  Hasn't there been a lot of discussion about whether "civil war" is the right term?  It looks like your captioner is either biased or jumping the gun on this ~ unregistered user —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.69.127.105 (talk) 21:56, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Caption 

message: Shouldn't the major recommendations of the report be summarized here?  If we don't want to debate which ones are major, could we not list all 79 in point form?  Afil 16:59, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Summary? 

message: The article quotes various leaks about what the report was expected to say. That has nothing to do with an encyclopedia. The rumors prior to the release of the report ar unimportant. The article should pe rewritten, eliminating all these references and present the actual conclusions of the report. 
Afil 16:59, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Is this article only about hearsay?

message: I just deleted some phrase like "this study group is founded by terrorist selling scout girl cookies..." whatever. Just wanted to raise a flag and say this arcticle is prone to vandalism. Be on your guard people. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by SvenGodo (talk • contribs) 18:29, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Potential Vandalism 

message: This article says that there was dispute between conservatives, and "liberals who want to take a more pragmatic approach to the Middle East."  This is not only POV, it's factually incorrect, as everyone involved wanted to take a more pragmatic approach to the Middle East. 69.118.222.77 15:47, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wildy POV 

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