Tomorrow President Bush will meet with Jim Baker and Lee Hamilton to discuss the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group. The group’s report will be issued next month, but presumably its conclusions have more or less taken shape. Based on the leaking that is currently going on, the news could hardly be worse:
A top U.S. intelligence official has been meeting with Middle East counterparts to discuss proposals expected from the Baker commission on Iraq, Middle East sources have told Newsday.
How’s that for multilateralism? The report’s conclusions apparently are being cleared in advance by Middle Eastern intelligence officials.
The proposals reportedly include an approach to Iran and Syria
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