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Gates says U.S. not winning in Iraq

President Bush's defense secretary nominee told a Senate committee Tuesday that the United States was not winning the war in Iraq, and that the U.S. course there "over the next year or two" would shape the entire Middle East.

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Posted: 12/05/2006 2:38 PM
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