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Tue Sep 23, 2008 5:36 pm |
 Post subject: Coalition Has Entered ‘Endgame’ in Iraq |
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=51279
Coalition Has Entered ‘Endgame’ in Iraq, Gates Says
By John J. Kruzel
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23, 2008 – Amid an 80-percent drop in violence and with further withdrawals of U.S. forces in sight, the coalition in Iraq has reached the “endgame,” Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said here today.
“I believe we have now entered that endgame – and our decisions today and in the months ahead will be critical to regional stability and our national security interests for years to come,” he told the Senate Armed Service Committee during a hearing on Iraq and Afghanistan |
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