The motorcade flew down Pennsylvania Avenue just after 8 a.m. last Tuesday, sirens screaming and lights flashing—two white police cruisers, five black town cars and a gray staff van. Was it the President? Or the Vice President? Nah-it was just the Iraq Study Group, Washington's new shadow government, on another emergency run, this time from the White House, where its members told George W. Bush how to get out of Iraq, up to Capitol Hill, where they preached bipartisanship and renewed diplomacy猘s well as the promise of withdrawal from Iraq by 2008. It'snot often that 10 unelected people, all in their 60s and 70s, can supersede the elected government of the U.S,butlastweek the panel, led by ex-Secretary of State James Baker and former Congressman Lee Hamilton, pulled it off for a couple of days.
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机译：上周二上午8点刚过，车队沿着宾夕法尼亚大道（Pennsylvania Avenue）行驶，警笛尖叫着，灯光闪烁—两辆白色警用巡洋舰，五辆黑色城镇小汽车和一辆灰色警车。是总统吗？还是副总统？不，这只是华盛顿新的影子政府伊拉克研究小组的又一次紧急逃亡，这次是从白宫进行的，白宫的成员告诉乔治·W·布什（George W. Bush）如何离开伊拉克，一直到国会山宣讲。两党制和新的外交，以及到2008年退出伊拉克的承诺。10岁左右的60岁和70岁的未当选人通常不能取代美国当选政府，但上周由前任领导的小组-国务卿贝克（James Baker）和前国会议员李·汉密尔顿（Lee Hamilton）将其推迟了几天。
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