Secretary Gate’s personal view that a “modest” amount of troops will remain in Iraq after 2011

Posted by Staff on February 27, 2009 |

By Kayleigh Harvey – Talk Radio News Service

Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, backed up President Obama’s statement today, in a conference cal,l that all U.S. combat troops will be out of Iraq by August 31, 2010 and that all U.S. troops would leave Iraq by 2011. Gates said that if Iraqi forces asked for U.S. troops to remain, he believed people “should be prepared to have a very modest size presence” remaining in Iraq.

 
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February 27, 2009
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