US must focus on Iraq, less on future wars-Gates
                   
alertnet.org     May 13, 2008            

By Andrew Gray COLORADO SPRINGS, Co., May 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. military should focus more on winning in Iraq and preparing to fight other insurgencies and less on possible big wars with other countries, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Tuesday. "I have noticed too much of a tendency... [read full story]                    


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