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Posted: August 5, 2009 at 4:28 a.m.
QUOTE OF THE DAY "Our goal here given us by the president is a secure, stable, sovereign, self-reliant Iraq.We're not there yet." Gen. Ray Odierno, the top U.S. general in Iraq
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