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For Defense Secretary Robert Gates (ABC’s This Week, Fox News Sunday): During your confirmation hearing in December 2006, you said:
Our military forces win the battles that they fight [but] the areas where we’re having our challenges, frankly, are principally in the areas of stabilization and political developments…
In the president’s address this week, he conceded that after the military surge, “The [Iraqi] government has not met its own legislative benchmarks.”
As there have been no significant political developments since your hearing, by your own standard, isn’t the only conclusion we can make is that the president’s strategy is a failure?
