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Apr 10, 2008 2:06 pm US/Central

Gates Abandons Hope For 100K Troops In Iraq By '09

WASHINGTON (AP) ― Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he has abandoned hope that troop levels in Iraq will drop to 100,000 by the end of the year.

Instead, he told a Senate panel Thursday that he expects that General David Petraeus, the top military commander in the war, will be able to make an assessment of further drawdowns by mid-September.

Last fall, the secretary said he held out hope that troop levels in Iraq could continue to drop through this year. While he would not put a specific number troop levels, he agreed at the time that a consistent reduction would have left about 10 brigades -- or roughly 100,000 troops -- by the end of the year.

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