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By Nancy A. Youssef / The Bulletin
April 12, 2009
WASHINGTON — Midway through a week of mayhem in Iraq, Defense Secretary Robert Gates raised eyebrows when he said the recent resurgence of violence in Baghdad was “a last gasp” of Islamic extremists.
It was an echo of former Vice President Dick Cheney, who in 2005....