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Iraq Reaction to the Iraq Study Group Report
Talk of the Nation, December 7, 2006 · Iraqi officials give their reaction to the Iraq Study group report that was released Wednesday. Other advisors to the Iraq Study Group also join us for more discussion of U.S. policies in Iraq.
Guest:
Michael Rubin, Resident Scholar the American Enterprise Institute, Former Pentagon policy official and former political adviser to the U.S. occupation authority in Baghdad
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Host: The report has clearly shifted the debate in Washington. So far it has not made as big an impact in Baghdad, where some say the authors failed to understand or address the complexities of Iraqi politics.
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Host: So in the end do you think that, in as far as what you knew about it, the spectrum of well represented?
Michael Rubin: Actually I don't think it was very well represented. The actually working groups, the four working groups and the military group contributed a lot of advise, but the process was rather opaque as to whether that advise was to be taken or not. At the level of commissioners and at the level of the staffs of the co-chairman it seemed to be a rather opaque process and perhaps somewhat pre-determined.
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