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Article: Petraeus: Iraq too fragile for troop cuts
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- April 9, 2008
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WASHINGTON -- The top U.S. commander in Iraq told Congress
Tuesday that hard-won gains in the war zone are too fragile to
promise any troop pullouts beyond this summer, holding his ground
against impatient Democrats and refusing to commit to more
withdrawals before President Bush leaves office in January.
Army Gen. David Petraeus painted a picture of a nation struggling
to suppress violence among its own people and to move toward the
political reconciliation that Bush said a year ago was the ultimate
aim of his new Iraq strategy, which included sending more than
20,000 extra combat troops.
Security is getting better, and Iraq's own forces are becoming
more able, Petraeus said. But he also ...