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And this extra focus in kandahar, now with the xhu commanew commander, general petraeus, there is a feeling this is the final push. if the community doesn't get it right this time, there might be very little will to continue this war much longer. >> how about fourth of july? any kind of celebrations for the troops there? how are they spending this day? >> reporter: they are celebrating this day, and a lot of troops, the ones who have to do urgent patrols, obviously are doing that force protect continues. it's very much a workday but the pace of the day is often set by the lieutenant or platoon...

That's not news. i think playing it out in front of the press is very bad and i'm general mcchrystal and survived, i would fire my staff involved in saying all those outlandish things. >> larry: they're the ones most quoted. one of the bombshells is of the one on one meeting with president obama. it was a ten-minute photo-op says an adviser to mcchrystal. obama clearly didn't know anything about him, who he was. here's the guy who's gown to run his bleeping war. doesn't seem very engaged. the boss was pretty disapontded. john, what do you make of what the colonel said, though? this has happene...

Of pennsylvania. he was wounded in baghdad, april 21, 2007. he was hit by a high-powered armor-piercing bullet. rushed to a medical facility. he died and flat lined for 15 minutes beyond the time believed a person can survive, but the army captain did recover and returned to duty p/e he spoke to our john king about why he went back. >> when you first went back you had to be afraid. >> sir, i absolutely was, and i went back for two reasons. i redeployed to iraq only five months after this injury despite everyone telling me not to, but there are two very good reasons for that. the first was for ...

You, no, sir, no, sir, no, sir, and you insisted on going back. not only did you go back, you will rotate back overseas again in the near future. when you first went back, you had to be afraid? >> sir, i absolutely was. and i went back for two reasons. the -- i redeployed to iraq only five months after this injury, despite everyone telling me not to. but there is two very good reasons for that. the first was for my men. they lost two of their senior leaders in five seconds on one day. a month later, our platoon sergeant was struck by an ied and he was medivaced out of theater. this left a grou...

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