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Powell Says U.S. Losing in Iraq,
Calls for Drawdown by Mid-2007
By Karen DeYoung
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, December 18, 2006; Page A20
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 responsibility for Iraqi security to the government in Baghdad sooner rather than later, with a U.S. drawdown to begin by the middle of next year.
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