Panetta: Iraq will ask for some U.S. troops to stay

Friday, June 10, 2011

WASHINGTON -- Leon Panetta, President Barack Obama's choice to head the Pentagon, predicted Thursday that Iraq will ask the United States to keep some American forces in that country beyond year's end, the current departure date.

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