Iraq forces Gates to pick new top officer
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The Bush administration said on Friday it would not renominate Gen. Peter Pace as the top U.S. military officer, avoiding a contentious debate with the Democratic-led Congress over unpopular Iraq war.
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US commander in Iraq to launch new drive to defer any exit of troops until April 2008.
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The State Department will order as many as 50 U.S. diplomats to take posts in Iraq next year because of expected shortfalls in filling openings there, the first such large-scale forced assignment since the Vietnam War.
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The new U.S. military commander in Iraq said on Saturday that American and Iraqi security forces had to stabilize the country in what he called a high-stakes battle, or it would be doomed to more violence.
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An extra 2,200 military police are to head to Iraq to support the US security drive in the capital, the Pentagon says.
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Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered Iraq's military commanders on Tuesday to speed up preparations for a U.S.-backed crackdown in Baghdad after a string of attacks killed hundreds of people in recent days.
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Defense Secretary nominee Robert Gates told senators at his confirmation hearing today that he's open to new ideas on Iraq. In his opening statement to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Gates warned that developments in Iraq will shape the Middle East for years to come.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday criticized security contractors in Iraq as Baghdad piled more pressure on the State Department to pull the Blackwater firm out of Iraq after deadly shootings last month.
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The United States may have to adopt more realistic expectations for Iraq, President George W. Bush's choice to become the top U.S. military commander for the Middle East said on Tuesday.
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The new top U.S. commander in Iraq said Saturday that the stakes are high but the situation is "not hopeless" as American and Iraqi forces move to quell spiraling sectarian violence in the country.
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BAGHDAD -- A top US military commander in Iraq called for more Iraqi troops to police troubled areas yesterday, a day in which at least 26 people were killed in attacks on civilians and police across the troubled nation.
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Under fire over Iraq, the President gets help from the Iraqi leader he appointed
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Top American officials in Iraq were setting out their vision for the U.S. troop presence to the British prime minister.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday criticized security contractors in Iraq as Baghdad piled more pressure on the State Department to pull the Blackwater firm out of Iraq after deadly shootings last month.
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The Bush administrationâs decision makes Gen. Peter Pace the highest-ranking officer to be a political casualty of the issue of Iraq.
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Exclusive: For the second time, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is transferring a top-level commander rather than promoting a younger leader--raising eyebrows among military leaders
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US authorities in Iraq have arrested a man chosen to lead Iraq&#39;s National Guard in one of the country&#39;s most troubled and violent provinces.