US Defense Secretary Warns of Massive Bloodshed in Iraq if US Military Operations Curtailed

April 6th, 2007, by dipps

Secretary Gates issued the latest verbal salvo in an increasingly fierce power struggle between America’s executive and legislative branches of government over the future of U.S. military involvement in Iraq.

Speaking on a domestic radio program Thursday, Gates warned of “ethnic cleansing inside Baghdad or in Iraq more broadly,” if U.S. troops curtail operations in the strife-ridden nation.