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Them to continue the fight. continue to attach strings like a withdrawal plan, general petraeus has been flat out saying thats temporary to u.s. policy which is any withdrawal should be conditions based, one would expect hell get his way. >> overseeing this force, he was demoted to this position. >> right. i think the commander was named today. hes well known at central command because he was petraeus number two guy. it is not clear if he will get the job permanently although theres plenty of bu...

Foreign agents. one of them, a 28-year-old chapman is getting more attention than others. she has become the face of the group basically in the media with her pictures all over the tabloids. and officials in the russian country see a suicide bomber blew himself up in the capital, and three police officers and two civilians were wounded. >> militants stormed the entrance to a major airbase in afghanistan today, and security forces repelled the attack killing eight insurgents. attorney general hol...

Went through with president bush at the beginning of the surge. to then develop the -- and recommend what is believed to be the right approach to accomplish that mission, to assess the resources necessary, to enable implementation of that approach, that strategy, that military strategy, and in this case a civilian military strategy, frankly, to identify the levels of risk associated with different levels of resource ing and then to have dialogue about all of that as it goes forward, recognizing ...

Said my mother would say, "god loves you." now he is headed to ham as seafood, a wholesaler in new orleans, meeting with local fishermen over there to talk about the situation and how theyre coping. richard? >> yeah, and they have been hit so hard, all of the restaurants and seafood suppliers and residents. youre there, what is the reaction to the president now and his first trip? >> well, the people who actually did see the vice president were the 400 or so employees, central command, and they ...

>> there has been a lot of obsession around thisle whole issue of when do we leave. my focus right now is how do we make sure that what were doing there is successful. given the incredible sacrifices that our young men and women are putting in. >> joining us now is jim miklaszewski and wesley clark. and from what youve been able to gather, mchtik, what are we expecting to hear tomorrow? >> first of all, general petraeus was a brilliant choice if you listen to many of the choices out there on cap...

Serving as overall commander as headquarters of central command in tampa. to replace him there, two names are often mentioned, general allen and james madden who heads joint forces command and both worked well with petraeus in the past. the new commander would technically be petraeus boss but in reality d.>> the bottom line is simple. everybody knows who is in charge of the war in afghanistan, thats dave petraeus. >> reporter: while there are difficult challenges ahead and well subly sized setba...

He will have a new central command person over him. and if you talk to his wife, he has been overseas a lot in iran. he now is going to go back overseas in a lesser position. why is he doing that? hes a great patriot. >> peter, is it more -- it seems like everybody ive talked to, just from being there, it seems a lot more complicated, even though -- even than the incredible situation than iraq was when he took over. >> that was a full-blown civil war. by the way, athe that time you were 15 times...

Not a systemic problem. >> i recommended, i strongly recommended general mcchrystal to the secretary of defense and the president to assume this job. so certainly from my vantage point, i feel some responsibility here. that said, general mcchrystal has been given guidance from here, from centcom and certainly from the president, thats been very clear and i have an expectation that a commander certainly someone with four stars and in kind of responsibility follow that guidance. as i said in my st...

At the time is -- were in a much, much better place there because of his leadership. he could be the man who turns around two wars before this is over. it may not work, but hes going to give it the best shot -- we have the best leader in the field now and the country ought to be appreciative of that. by the way, i think we ought to recognize here that general petraeus is taking one for the team on this. you know, he was the boss of general mccrystal. hes going backwards north carolinas of hes go...

Review and well make an assessment. is the strategy working? is it working in part or are there other aspects of it that arent working? hows the coordination between civilian and military? are we doing enough to build afghan security capacity? how are we working effectively with our allies? so we are in the midpoint of implementing the strategy that we came up with last year. well do a review at the end of this year. general petraeus understands that strategy, because he helped shape it. and my ...