Study group co-chairman James Baker acknowledged Iran's likely unwillingness to cooperate much, revealing he had already approached Tehran about the subject.
Finally, there will be two days of deliberations by the Iraq Study Group, co-chaired by former Secretary of State James Baker and former Rep. Lee Hamilton.
The Administration's inability to argue more effectively that the stakes preclude both of these options seems to have reflected yet another error: the growing influence in its ranks of those like former Secretary of State James Baker and the bipartisan Iraq Study Group he co-chairs with former Rep. Lee Hamilton.
Mr. JAMES BAKER (Co-Chairman, Iraq Study Group): Where I think we're really missing the boat is Syria.
Mr. JAMES BAKER (Co-chair, Iraq Study Group): We're going to come with some rather specific and detailed recommendations.
Mr. LEE HAMILTON (Co-chair, Iraq Study Group): The government of Iraq must act.
The co-chairmen of the Iraq Study Group are former Secretary of State James Baker III, a Republican, and former Indiana Rep. Lee Hamilton, a Democrat.
Mr Bush also ignored the managed withdrawal advocated by the Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan commission co-chaired by James Baker, a former secretary of state.
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The two co-chairmen of the Iraq Study Group testified on Capitol Hill on Thursday about their recommendations for what they call a new way forward in Iraq.
Republican co-chair of the Iraq Study Group, James Baker, defended Secretary Rice on some points, saying she did just go to the Middle East and is working to revive the Arab-Israeli peace process, another recommendation by the Iraq Study Group.
For his part, US President Barack Obama is receiving guidance on contending with Iran from former Congressman Lee Hamilton, who co-authored the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group report published in December 2006.
Co-authored by management consultants Boston Consulting Group (BCG), the study said the findings were doubly interesting "given the challenges faced by emerging market companies which often have to deal with multiple problems".
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