British MPs Urge Break With Bush On Iraq, Escalation ‘Not Likely To Succeed’

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http://thinkprogress.org/2007/08/13/mp-iraq-succeed

British MPs Urge Break With Bush On Iraq, Escalation ‘Not Likely To Succeed’

Today, the British Parliamant’s Select Committee on Foreign Affairs published “Global Security: The Middle East,” an oversight report issuing 36 recommendations on how the British Government can improve its role in the Middle East region.

The committee had dire predictions for the future of the escalation in Iraq, emphasizing that the British Government should focus on “political reconciliation” instead of a military solution:

We conclude that it is too early to provide a definitive assessment of the US ’surge’ but that it does not look likely to succeed. We believe that the success of this strategy will ultimately ride on whether Iraq’s politicians are able to reach agreement on a number of key issues.

We recommend that, in its response to this Report, the Government set out what actions it is taking to facilitate political reconciliation in Iraq.

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[unhappycamper]

1. The blog comments are pretty good also. n/t