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Gates Says U.S. Is Not Winning Iraq War |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SECURITY SCENE |
| Author: Robert Burns |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2007 |
| Size: 1,106 Words, 6,405 Characters |
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Robert Gates, the White House choice to be the next defense secretary, conceded December 5, 2006 that the United States is not winning the war in Iraq and warned that if that country is not stabilized in the next year or two it could lead to a "regional conflagration."
At a Senate confirmation hearing that was long on praise for Gates and short on criticism, the man President Bush chose to replace Donald H. Rumsfeld said he is open to new ideas about correcting the U.S. course in Iraq. He said the war would be his highest priority if confirmed as expected.
Gates, sixty-three, said he believes Bush wants to see Iraq improve to the point where it can govern and defend itself, while seeking a new approach. "What we are now doing is not satisfactory," Gates said.
"In my view, all o...
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.... government should "look at ways to bring them to be constructive. How we do that, I don't have any specific ideas at this point."
Of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, he said: "The way we'll catch bin Laden eventually, in my view, is that just as in the case of Saddam Hussein, one of his people will turn him in."
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