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'Deep breath,' Gates urges

Time needed to devise Afghan strategy, he tells GOP

Posted: September 18, 2009 at 5:32 a.m.

Republican lawmakers turned up the pressure Thursday for more details on the war in Afghanistan, but Defense Secretary Robert Gates said "everybody should take a deep breath" and let the administration devise strategy at its own pace.

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