Gates: Failure in Iraq will haunt U.S.
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On his first day as defense secretary, Robert Gates warned Monday that failure in Iraq would be a "calamity" that would haunt the United States for years. Underscoring eroding security there, a Pentagon report said the number of insurgent and sectarian attacks had risen to the highest level in years.
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Robert Gates, nominated to replace Donald Rumsfeld as U.S. defense secretary, on Tuesday said he did not believe America was winning the war in Iraq and that he would consider all options for changing course.
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WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates told a House panel yesterday that the United States should know in a few months if the Iraqi government is making progress toward peace and whether the United States "is going to have to look at other alternatives and consequences."
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The United States risks being stuck in a "quagmire" in Iraq unless the Bush administration changes strategy, a Democratic member of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group said on Saturday.
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The new U.S. military commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, warned on Saturday that failure to stabilize the country would condemn Iraq to continued civil strife.
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US Defence Secretary Robert Gates warned Sunday that the failure of the international force in Afghanistan would increase the security threat to Europe.
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In a few years, Iraq will be a distant, if painful memory. Our new focus almost certainly will be on Iran and North Korea. In the strange way that geopolitics
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The president rejected the idea of withdrawing most combat troops before their work is done, saying the failure to establish a stable and secure Iraq would haunt Americans for years.
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âWe simply cannot afford to fail in the Middle East,â said Robert M. Gates at a Pentagon ceremony today.
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Iraqi forces will not be ready to assume full responsibility for their nation's security for years, and the U.S. military should be cautious in planning to reduce its 157,000-strong force in Iraq given past setbacks, the American general in charge of the teams that advise Iraqi forces warned...
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Along with a recent spike in deadly violence in Iraq, a classified US government report paints a bleak picture of Iraq&#39;s immediate future.
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Iraq &quot;looks bleak&quot; and is a &quot;tough situation,&quot; but there is no question that the United States will prevail over insurgents, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld
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Senior military officers have warned that the new Iraq strategy could fail unless civilians step forward quickly to carry out plans for reconstruction and political development.
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The United States is not planning for a war with Iran and instead is trying to stop them from contributing to the violence in Iraq, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Friday.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Friday branded the outpatient care of U.S. troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan "unacceptable" and promised officials would be held accountable for the failings.
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Republican presidential candidate John McCain warned Saturday that U.S. failure in Iraq would eventually pull America into a "wider and more difficult war" in the troubled region.
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Historian says the high-level failure continues to undercut what has been a "mediocre" Army effort in Iraq.