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..." sergeant Alex lemons and captain -- when they worked directly for General Petraeus. Which upsets the regular chain of command we want to hear about that. And he just returned from this fourth tour of"...
..." progress there's certainly an improvement in security. But I think that what General Petraeus says about the difference between military progress and long term sustainable political progress. About how there's not yet a light at the"...
..." group the sons of Iraq this is a Sunni tribal group in Anbar Province that fought Al Qaeda there. And in in this case then that sense of betrayal was that it was the US military"...
..." Of the way this war is killing and and one thing in General Petraeus has has taught us is the importance of realizing that this. Is an insurgency we're finding and we need to be wishing"...
..." we know now more than ever. That there was no connection between Al Qaeda in Iraq do you find yourself coming home. On reentry and and asking was was this worth it why did we didn't."...
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
TORTURE CHART: The New York Times reports today that the same techniques that U.S. interrogators were trained to use on Guantanamo Bay detainees were once used by Chinese Communists to extract false confessions from American soldiers in the Korean War. We speak with New York Times reporter Scott Shane. VIEW FROM IRAQ : 29 year-old Marine Captain Seth Moulton has just returned from his fourth tour of duty in Iraq . Moulton volunteered to return to Iraq at the personal request of US Commander to Iraq , Gen. David Petraeus. While Moulton did make in-roads in defeating insurgents over the past year, it is unclear how long those local initiatives will last without continued US involvement. Moulton speaks candidly about his year in Iraq , where he fought insurgents, intractable Iraqi politicians and a burgeoning US military bureaucracy. CT SCANS: Tim Russert's recent death, at the age of 58, raised concerned among the millions of people in his age group about heart disease. They're ask
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