The Iraq Study Group
Filmed on December 12, 2006

Edwin Meese III

As one of the prominent conservative members of the Iraq Study Group, Edwin Meese has drawn withering criticism from the right for the group's recommendations—the National Review calling their final report "dressed-up surrender in Iraq." Just what does the report say about the situation in Iraq, what to do about troop levels, and a "new diplomatic offensive in the Middle East"? Meese takes on the key points and their critics and offers a strong defense of the positions staked out by the Iraq Study Group.

Chapters:

00:48  The critics
04:25  How bad is it?
07:18  Troop levels
13:39  Diplomatic initiatives
21:47  Iraqi milestones
26:42  Reconstruction
29:03  What now?

Guests:

• Edwin Meese III

  Edwin Meese is a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. He served as the seventy-fifth attorney general of the United States from February 1985 to August 1988.