Powell Says U.S. Losing in Iraq, Calls for Drawdown by Mid-2007

Former secretary of state Colin L. Powell said yesterday that the United States is losing what he described as a "civil war" in Iraq and that he is not persuaded that an increase in U.S. troops there would reverse the situation. Instead, he called for a new strategy that would relinquish...
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Karen DeYoung

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