Iraq Study Group report: the reaction

The Guardian's Jonathan Steele is so unimpressed by the Iraq Study Group report that it seems he managed to read it (no doubt with the help of several leaks) and write a 1,100 word reaction piece within 11 minutes of its publication at 4pm UK time. He writes:

"James Baker is a lawyer, a fixer, a Republican, a friend of the Bush family, and a deeply political animal. He is not an independent radical or a man known for original thinking. So the question in the wake of his Iraq Study Group's predictably uncontroversial report is: why was it ever set up?"

The foreign secretary, Margaret Beckett, is a bit slower off the mark, saying the British government needed time to "read and digest" the formal recommendations. (And also work out whether any of the recommendations Tony Blair made to the panel made the final cut, she didn't add.)