Why have one Iraq Study Group when you can have two?

Jai rightly flagged this story in the Morning Brief today as perhaps the most significant news of the day. Just a day after sitting down for an interview with the Iraq Study Group, the bipartisan commission tasked with charting a new course for the U.S. in Iraq, President Bush has announced his own, hastily-thrown-together review. ...

Jai rightly flagged this story in the Morning Brief today as perhaps the most significant news of the day. Just a day after sitting down for an interview with the Iraq Study Group, the bipartisan commission tasked with charting a new course for the U.S. in Iraq, President Bush has announced his own, hastily-thrown-together review. The new internal review is set to present its findings at just about the same time the Iraq Study Group plans to reveal its recommendations next month. Money quote:  

Jai rightly flagged this story in the Morning Brief today as perhaps the most significant news of the day. Just a day after sitting down for an interview with the Iraq Study Group, the bipartisan commission tasked with charting a new course for the U.S. in Iraq, President Bush has announced his own, hastily-thrown-together review. The new internal review is set to present its findings at just about the same time the Iraq Study Group plans to reveal its recommendations next month. Money quote:  

[T]he administration is basically trying to do in one month what the ISG has done over eight months.

In other words, Bush needs some recommendations that he wants to hear. 

Carolyn O'Hara is a senior editor at Foreign Policy.

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