Obama's choice for next U.S. ambassador to Iraq withdraws

http - June 18th, 2012

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's nominee to become the next U.S. ambassador to Iraq withdrew his name on Monday after Republican lawmakers questioned his suitability following revelations that he had engaged in an extramarital affair with a journalist who later became his wife. Brett McGurk, a long-time Iraq expert who had served on the Bush administration's National Security

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