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Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has resigned, and will be replaced by former CIA Director Robert Gates. “Gates is a member of the Iraq Study Group…” A shift in the Iraq policy is expected after the Democrats won the house, and potentially the Senate.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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