Gates Coaxes Iraq on Political Front

Washington Post by Ann Scott Tyson, Sudarsan Raghavan | Apr. 21, 2007 (News Report)
Defense Secretary, in Baghdad, Reiterates That U.S. Street Patrols Aren't Indefinite

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, unsatisfied with the pace of political reconciliation in Iraq, laid down an implicit deadline Friday by urging Iraqi leaders to pass key laws by summer while repeating his warning that U.S. troops will not patrol Iraqi streets indefinitely.

Gates also described as "mixed" the results of two-month-old military operations to curb violence in Baghdad, which have included tens of thousands of additional U.S. troops. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Apr 21, 2007 - 10:35 AM PDT
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 by Kevin Doyle Jones - Apr. 21, 2007

Interesting take on a general's purposeful injection of military goals into the political realm. Now everyone will have to react to this mention of a timetable by the man in charge of boots on the ground.

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 by Mary McFadden - Apr. 23, 2007

The story is a bit scattered. It moves from Gates and the political process to an inventory of recent violence. There should have been a bit more on the resistance of the Iraqi government to release figures to the UN Assistance Mission. The hint at avoidance should have been enunciated.

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