问题是是否我的立场——关于建议我们需要开始分阶段撤军，我们应当更早开始撤军——是否这个立场是错误的。

The question is whether or not my position, in suggesting that we need to begin a phased withdrawal, we should have begun it earlier, whether that position that I took was a mistake.

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那时两党共同建立了一支伊拉克问题研究小组，盖茨也是其中一员。在盖茨上任之后，该小组对他随即提出的分阶段从伊拉克撤军的计划非常赞同。

And yet he had been a member of the Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan panel that advocated a phased withdrawal from Iraq soon after Mr Gates's appointment.

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