Gates Says Some Troops May Remain in Iraq for Years

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/09/world/middleeast/09military.html?scp=1&sq=gates%20says%20us%20could%20keep%20a%20force%20in%20iraq&st=cse

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From: barry levine 
Date: Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 12:13 PM
Subject: re: Gates Says Some Troops May Remain in Iraq for Years
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

   A wave of revolutions across the Arab world has overturned many assumptions in that region. We should seriously re-weigh president Obama's promise to get our troops out of Iraq as this unfolds. Still, if that is the offer, I want my president to stand up and say that to me.  As long as he uses Secretary Gates as a hand-puppet to mouth the words, this relationship isn't working. 

Barry Haskell Levine