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Bush says security gains in Iraq may last
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| News Date | Friday, August 1, 2008 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Trumpeting progress in Iraq, President Bush said for the first time Thursday that security improvements now have a "degree of durability" — an assertion that appeared to lay the groundwork for an announcement in coming weeks of further U.S. troop reductions.
Echoing the president's assessment, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said later at a Pentagon news conference that security in Iraq has "improved dramatically" and that he sees "a real possibility" that conditions there will permit more troop cuts, although he did not say how soon or how many.
The administration is awaiting a recommendation from its soon-to-depart commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, on future troop levels. Petraeus is expected to submit that report before the end of August, and in mid-September he will leave Baghdad to become commander of U.S. Central Command, a position of broader responsibility that includes the increasingly worrisome war in Afghanistan.
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