Reuters: Pentagon chief urges caution in Iraq pullout

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Pentagon chief urges caution in Iraq pullout
      

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday urged the next U.S. president, who will take office in January, to proceed cautiously in withdrawing troops from Iraq despite an 80 percent drop in violence there.
    "I worry the great progress that our troops and the Iraqis have made has the potential to override a measure of caution born of uncertainty," Gates told a congressional hearing in Washington.
    The Iraq war is one of the main issues in the November U.S. presidentia
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