Now that is an understatement
Gates On Iraq: "We Probably All Underestimated...HowDifficult It Would Be"NY Times David S. Cloud August 2, 2007 10:41 PM
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -- Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Thursday that he was discouraged by the resignation of the Sunnis from Iraq's cabinet and that the Bush administration might have misjudged the difficulty of achieving reconciliation between Iraq's sectarian factions.
In one of his bluntest assessments of the progress of the administration's Iraq strategy, Mr. Gates said, "I think the developments on the political side are somewhat discouraging at the national level." He said that despite the Sunni withdrawal, "my...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -- Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Thursday that he was discouraged by the resignation of the Sunnis from Iraq's cabinet and that the Bush administration might have misjudged the difficulty of achieving reconciliation between Iraq's sectarian factions.
In one of his bluntest assessments of the progress of the administration's Iraq strategy, Mr. Gates said, "I think the developments on the political side are somewhat discouraging at the national level." He said that despite the Sunni withdrawal, "my...
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