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Appointment of petraeus and the comments he made that we showed about no rush for the exits in july of 2011 and late this week, are you as convinced as bill is that the president is all in on afghanistan? i think that bill is right, that the president did the right thing and that the president deserves credit. i think he unfortunately had to relieve mccrystal. he was a tremendous general and did tremendous things in iraq when the entire story of iraq is told, i think he ll get the credit he deserves there with the special forces. he had to be replaced, however, and petraeus is the right person for the job. i did think the president s speech announcing the change was a good speech. now, i don t think that we know for sure that he s all in because petraeus can t do it alone. if you don t have the changes in the civilian leadership you talked about in your interview segment this morning, it will be very difficult to get this done. eichenberry, for example, has two critical audiences. ....

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