BLISTERING REBUKE OF BUSH/CHENEY...

Reid: There Must Be Change......Hagel: There Will Be No Military Solution…… Levin: Another Blow For “Stay The Course"......Murtha: No Different Than Current Policy……Feingold: "How Many More Days Are We Going To Put Up With”.......

The New York Times DAVID E. SANGER December 6, 2006 09:52 PM

A bipartisan commission warned Wednesday that "the situation in Iraq is grave and deteriorating," and it handed President Bush both a rebuke for his current strategy and a detailed blueprint for a fundamentally different approach, including the pullback of all American combat brigades over the next 15 months.

In unusually sweeping and blunt language, the panel of five Republicans and five Democrats issued 79 specific recommendations.

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