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Saddam's forces fired shells containing nerve agents on iranian troops in a key series of battles in southern iraq in 1988. retired air force 1988. retired air force colonel, a u.s. military liaison to iraq at the time says the foreign policy article got it wrong quoting him saying that u.s. officials new in advance that saddam was going to do that. >> we did not know that the i a iraqis were going to use in advance. >> reporter: he said he didn't know until he found the invectors he said the this iranians used. he said he confronted his iraq counter parts. >> what was their response? >> their...

To leave at some point in the near future. by saying january or later in 2011, he's allowing two important things, that he has been managing at the pentagon, to proceed, one, the draw down this month, of combat forces, moving them out of iraq, leaving a residual force, 50,000 noncombat forces in iraq, and, allowing him to participate fully, in a scheduled 12-month review, this december, the president's new afghanistan policy, which, of course, now has more than 100, about 100,000 u.s. forces along with nato force, in afghanistan. robert gates will see both of those through, probably leave acco...