Salazar said more study is needed before finalizing the withdrawal of the million acres of land around the Grand Canyon.

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The Scottish Liberal Democrat MSP for Orkney Tavish Scott backed Elaine Murray's calls for a moratorium and socioeconomic study into the impact of the withdrawal of RET to hauliers and said there were "serious concerns from hauliers and in the islands" about the plans.

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It will be his response not just to last month's Iraq Study Group report, which advocated the withdrawal of combat troops from Iraq by early next year, but also to the evident truth that the current plan is not working.

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The withdrawal came over the objection of the CRS economic team and the author of the study.

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In the United States, a bipartisan panel, the Iraq Study Group, has criticized the president's war policy and called for a conditional withdrawal of American combat forces by 2008.

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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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