María Elvira Salazar: “back in December when the Iraq Study Group first came out with its recommendations, the recommendations were heralded by…”

“back in December when the Iraq Study Group first came out with its recommendations, the recommendations were heralded by many people around the country as a new way forward--a new way forward for us to deal with this very difficult and impractical problem in which we find ourselves in Iraq. Those recommendations--some of which have been implemented and some of which have not--I believe still create the centerpiece for how we can find a bipartisan way forward for how we deal with the Iraq issue. I have walked around with the report of the Iraq Study Group for the last 4 months. I am very much appreciative of the fact that the people who put together the report were some of the best statesmen and women we have in the United States of America: James A. Baker, Lee Hamilton, Lawrence Eagleburger, Vernon Jordan, Ed Meese, Sandra Day O'Connor, Leon Panetta, William Perry, Charles Robb, and Alan Simpson. Those are some of the best and brightest people we have in America and who are working on one of the most difficult issues that confronts our country today.”