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Will McChrystal be replaced?

Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who publicly apologized Tuesday for using "poor judgment" in an interview in Rolling Stone magazine, has been ordered to attend the monthly White House meeting on Afghanistan and Pakistan in person Wednesday rather than over a secure video teleconference, according to officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. He'll be expected to explain his comments to Obama and top Pentagon officials, these officials said.
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Would you support closing Gitmo in exchange for tribunals?

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., will work with the president to close the infamous prison. In exchange, Obama will support holding military tribunals for accused terrorists, including alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is facing a civilian trial.
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Blackwater Banned

Federal auditors on Monday put a stop to Army plans to award a $1 billion training program for Afghan police officers to the company formerly known as Blackwater, concluding that other companies were unfairly excluded from bidding on the job.
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Did Bush and Rove "lie us into war" in Iraq with WMDs?

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Former president George W. Bush did not mislead the nation about weapons of mass destruction as a way to "lie us" into war, his former top political aide, Karl Rove, asserts in a new memoir, "Courage and Consequence."
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Cousin Marriage makes nation building really hard

In Iraq, as in much of the region, nearly half of all married couples are first or second cousins to each other. A 1986 study of 4,500 married hospital patients and staff in Baghdad found that 46% were wed to a first or second cousin, while a smaller 1989 survey found 53% were "consanguineously" married. The most prominent example of an Iraqi first cousin marriage is that of Saddam Hussein and his first wife Sajida.
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CIA bomber was invited onto base

The brazen attack that killed seven CIA employees at a remote outpost in Afghanistan is likely to raise questions about whether the agency could do more to protect its operatives on dangerous assignments.
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Lt. Col. Weitz: Learn From Vietnam- No Winning In Afghanistan

Have we not learned the lessons of Vietnam and Iraq? No! Listen to defense strategists and generals. How about McNamara, Westmoreland, Rumsfeld and the many generals replaced in Iraq? As for supporting democratic governments, what about those puppet governments in South Vietnam and the fragile coalition now ruling Iraq? As for greater troop strength, have we forgotten the 500,000 for Vietnam?
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Pelosi to include raising the debt ceiling in defense bill

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that she would include legislation to raise the debt ceiling in a must-pass defense spending bill headed to the floor of her chamber next week.
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Afghan war commander: Afghanistan war strategy is achievable

WASHINGTON -- The general in charge of the war in Afghanistan is telling Congress that President Barack Obama's new war strategy is achievable and that combat force levels can be reduced starting in the summer of 2011.
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With speech, Obama takes ownership of Afghan war

President Obama assumed full ownership of the war in Afghanistan on Tuesday night with a speech arguing that the fastest way out of the conflict is a rapid and significant escalation of it.
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Obama: U.S. security depends on surge

President Obama announced Tuesday that he will send 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan by next summer and begin withdrawing forces in July 2011, making his case to the nation that Islamist extremism in the region remains an enduring threat to the security of Americans.
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Blackwater reportedly OK'd Iraq bribes after killings

WASHINGTON - -- Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007 incident in which Blackwater security guards fatally shot 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad, according to former company officials.
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