Defense Secretary Robert Gates says a troop drawdown from Iraq is, in fact, a real possibility since he said conditions there have improved dramatically, but adds the final decision will be made by General David Petraeus.
Robert Gates comments on the potential for troop withdrawal from Iraq based on improved conditions.
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There has to be an agreement between the president and the Congress on actually what has to be done to recapture our industrial-military industrial capabilities.
the only way I could get significant new or additional equipment to commanders in the field in weeks or months--not years--was to take control of the problem myself through special task forces and ad hoc processes.
This is a Department that principally plans for war. It is not organized to wage war, and that is what I am trying to fix.
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