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In vietnam, it could take weeks, but now wounded can be home in days. cnn was granted exclusive access to see the medical care that makes it possible into injured troops. some, hours off the frontline. in the hospital hallway, army specialist james dennis is being shipped home after being in three attacks in three weeks. he had already been here before. he survived two roadside bomb attacks in the same day, and then a coup of days ago -- >> indirect fire. i was hit by a mortar. >> reporter: but still smiling. >> i'm good right now. they gave me some medicine. >> dennis ordered junior troops un...

About military operations on a given day, reports about roadside bomb attacks, reports about when u.s. troops have encountered enemy forces. everything single thing that the u.s. military has encountered there, they file a field report, and that's essentially the large measure of what you are looking at here. so it's what happened at a particular day at a particular point in time. the comprehensiveness, perhaps, comes later in the bigger picture, the big strategy, the overall assessments that are made about the war by top commanders, but very valid about what has happened to a particular unit ...

Competence. because that's the other thing that people go after. since president karzai took office in 2002, it is now 2010, june has been one of the deadliest months of the entire war. one report we had is that roadside bomb attacks have gone up 94% from last year in the first four months of this year. the afghan army is in no shape right now to stand up for its country. electricity still can't be delivered into some of those rural regions. it just doesn't seem to be gelling here. if you can't do it after nine years, how are you going to do it after ten? >> united states came to afghanistan b...

Operate against afghan people primarily and then the rest of the world. this was a shared fight between the afghan people, the afghan leadership and the rest of the world. if afghanistan was fully functioning, there would be no need for the international communities to be in afghanistan. we accomplished a lot. today many accomplishments that the afghan people are proud of. >> it seems like we are going backwards here. killings are up, roadside bomb attacks are up. we cannot get out of marjah at this point because there has not been the appropriate backup to come in and set up a government. can...

Few presidents in that region of the world that hardly has $50,000 in his bank account. there's presidents of intelligence and why don't they coming up with clear evidence of any corruption involvement of the president or his family? >> let me move to the issue of competence. that's the other thing that people go after. president karzai took office in 2002. it is now 2010. june has been one of the deadliest months of the entire war. one report that we have is that roadside bomb attacks have gone up 94% from last year in the first four months of this year. the afghan army is in no shape right n...