Gates: US to keep troop presence in Iraq for extended time
CNN
08/05/07
U.S. forces will probably be in Iraq for a ‘protracted period’ to support the country’s year-old government, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday. ‘We anticipate trying to work out with the Iraqi government an arrangement whereby there would be a residual presence of U.S. forces at some fraction of the current level that would be a stabilizing and supporting force in Iraq for some protracted period of time,’ he told CNN’s ‘Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer’...
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08/05/07
U.S. forces will probably be in Iraq for a ‘protracted period’ to support the country’s year-old government, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday. ‘We anticipate trying to work out with the Iraqi government an arrangement whereby there would be a residual presence of U.S. forces at some fraction of the current level that would be a stabilizing and supporting force in Iraq for some protracted period of time,’ he told CNN’s ‘Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer’...
http://tinyurl.com/ynvy77
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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