Secretary says Iraqis must decide "pretty quickly" what they want.
Eight months before pulling American combat soldiers out of Iraq and ending an eight-year war there, Defense Secretary Gates has signaled that the Pentagon is reconsidering. Our involvement has lasted longer and cost more American and Iraqi lives than the George W. Bush administration ever anticipated, with over 4,400 Americans dead, 33,000 wounded and the deaths of anywhere between 100,000 and a million Iraqi civilians.
The Secretary of Defense announced the possibility of an extension during his visit to Iraq on Thursday, alongside the top American commander there,
Army Gen. Lloyd Austin. He said an extension could last anywhere from two years to permanency, thus acknowledging off-the-record reports of Pentagon deliberation going on behind the scenes...
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