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pst.000065527535	United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services.	The situation in Iraq and Afghanistan : hearing before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, September 23, 2008 4.AR 5/3:S.HRG.110-716	2009		.txt	text/plain	736	41	58	[The prepared statement of Secretary Gates follows:] Mr. Chairman, Senator Warner, members of the committee: Thank you for inviting me to give you an update on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. example of the many ways in which you have supported our troops these past years. In Iraq, I was honored to pay tribute to our outgoing commander, General Earlier this month, General Petraeus made his recommendations on the way forward in Iraq. We have already withdrawn the five Army brigade combat teams, two Marine battalions, and the Marine expeditionary unit that were sent to Iraq as part of the The President announced earlier this month that approximately 8,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Iraq by February without being replaced. Even with fewer U.S. troops in Iraq, The recent turnover of Anbar province to Iraqi provincial control—the 11th of	./cache/pst.000065527535.pdf	./txt/pst.000065527535.txt