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Posted: September 26, 2009 at 6:16 a.m.
QUOTE OF THE DAY "I think that in some areas that the breadth of the violence, the geographic spread of violence, is a little more than I would have gathered." Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan
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