Gates Was “Distraught Over The Incompetence Of How The Iraq Operation Had Been Run” On Summer Baghdad Visit...

Times Of London Sarah Baxter November 11, 2006 07:53 PM

IF Robert Gates had any illusions about the scale of violence in Iraq, they were dispelled when he flew into Baghdad last summer...

...Once there, Gates met the key players from the American ambassador and US generals to Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq's beleaguered prime minister. A close associate described him as "distraught over the incompetence of how the Iraq operation had been run".

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