Panel: Bush Iraq policy ‘not working‘

Panel: Bush Iraq policy ‘not working‘: "President Bush's policy in Iraq 'is not working,' a high-level commission said bluntly on Wednesday, prodding the administration to use diplomacy to stabilize the country and allow withdrawal of most American combat troops by early 2008.

'There is no path that can guarantee success, but the prospects can be improved,' the commissioners said after an exhaustive review of a war that has taken the lives of more than 2,900 U.S. troops and grown so unpopular at home that it helped trigger a Democratic takeover of Congress in last month%u2018s elections.

President Bush received the report in an early morning meeting at the White House with commission members. He pledged to treat each proposal seriously and act in a 'timely fashion.'

The report painted a grim picture of Iraq nearly four years after U.S. forces toppled Saddam Hussein . It urged Bush to embrace steps he has thus far rejected, including a call to involve Syria and Iran in negotiations over Iraq%u2018s future."

(Via Google News.)