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James A. Baker III and Lee Hamilton sit at a table during a Senate hearing, with Hamilton holding and reading from the Iraq Study Group report.
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Iraq Study Group

United States bipartisan panel
Also known as: Baker-Hamilton Commission
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James A. Baker III and Lee Hamilton sit at a table during a Senate hearing, with Hamilton holding and reading from the Iraq Study Group report.
Iraq Study Group before U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee Iraq Study Group cochairs, former secretary of state James Baker (left) and former congressman Lee Hamilton, discussing their report before the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, December 7, 2006.

The Iraq Study Group was a bipartisan panel in the United States that examined the situation in Iraq. In late 2006, this group, co-chaired by James A. Baker III and Lee Hamilton, released a report stating that the situation in Iraq was "grave and deteriorating". The report advocated for diplomatic efforts to resolve the conflict and suggested that the U.S. military's role should shift to providing diminishing support to the Iraqi government, encouraging it to take on more security responsibilities.1

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  1. Iraq - Rocky transition to civilian government
  2. Iraq War

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