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What will be the face of drawdown of the 50,000 that remain. they are supposed to be out by the end of next year. as they are drawing down, we have presumably the drawdown in afghanistan. and again, the role of iran in that particular region, what will its hand be as they are building towards a nuclear weapon capability. there's a lot to be concerned about in that region, not to mention what's happening in pakistan as far as the flooding and devastation taking place and presence of al qaeda and taliban there. >> you made the transition to afghanistan. david gregory was reporting over the weeke...

In afghanistan, if you're in the white house, you've got to be a lot more concerned about your democratic base than anything else. got to be obviously more than a little bit nervous about that fact. so yesterday was some good news for the base. >> yeah. >> because the base has been saying you guys are just like bush and cheney on afghanistan. you tripled the number of troops there. but yesterday he could show he was different, he's drawing down, he's bringing the troops home. >> well, maybe. but this was, you know, let's be honest about it. this was the template put in place by george w. bush....

That in the tribal areas. you have to have an entire approach to the country. this has been lacking for over a decade. as you and i have discussed before. we are approaching country differently, and we're beginning to see real signs of movement. but nonetheless, we still have problems. >> but when we look for tangible progress, you know, there are a lot of people who say, actually, what is also happening is the pakistanis are waiting for the united states to start drawing down, they are building up their relationship with the taliban, and they're going to -- they're already meeting with karzai...

Province there was a suicide bombing at the government office. that is another remainder and a second bombing in mosul. two incidents already today. they had all of the earmarks of the suicide bombers that usually are sent out by al qaeda in iraq. the vice president has been ignoring all of that saying he's optimistic. u.s. troops start drawing down, 30,000 more coming out between now and september 1st with the handover to the iraqi government at the end of august, control of the mission. alex, one other thing. he has the diplomating and political part of the visit, meetings with all of the fr...

Yet. >> the special operations forces are not experiencing the draw down. in iraq. we have all -- all indication including my conversations with general petraeus and general odierno is that the special operations forces will be sustained at about the current level. >> there are currently 4500 special-ops forces in iraq, and they are not expected to start drawing down, until a new iraqi government is formed. chris? >> chris: investigators identified one of the two female suicide bombers allegedly responsible for monday's attacks on moscow subway trains and the 17-year-old from dagestan is belie...