ISG proposes everything the Bush admin has rejected

The NYTimes gets people to talk about the ISG draft report, and it seems to contain direct talks with Iran and Syria and a call for an announcement of withdrawal.

A draft report on strategies for Iraq, which will be debated here by a bipartisan commission beginning Monday, urges an aggressive regional diplomatic initiative that includes direct talks with Iran and Syria, but sets no timetables for a military withdrawal, according to officials who have seen all or parts of the document.....

In interviews, several officials said that announcing a major withdrawal was the only way to persuade the government of Iraq’s prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, to focus on creating an effective Iraqi military force.

With these proposals up for discussion and Cheney's man, Alan Simpson, on the ISG, I find the reports of discord in the next post highly credible.