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Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family of the u.s. soldier who was killed while supporting this assault. i apologize. i hate to mention the death of a individual american without mentioning their name because i don't want to sound like it's just a name, but the family has not been informed yet and that's the only reason i'm not releasing the name of this young hero. we also commend all the troops and civilians serving in iraq who continue to put themselves in harm's way in the service or our country and a secure and peaceful iraq. to consolidate these security gains in honor of sacrific...

Things that may be left behind by the military, just because it costs too much to send them elsewhere. trace: mike emanuel live at the pentagon, thank you. >> thank you. jamie: the white house calling the most recent outburst from afghanistan's president troubling. president hamid karzai, blasting the west yesterday, accusing the united nations and the international community of trying to rig last summer's election, and weaken his bottom. well, karzai's outburst coming days after president obama made a surprise trip to afghanistan, and ahead of a may 12th trip to washington. speaking to report...

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Over the last several years. and also, painting a vision post 2014 in which we have ended our combat role and the afghan war as we understand it is over, by our commitment to friendship and partnership with afghanistan continues. >> reporter: the afghanistan war as we know it is over. strong words from the president making it clear to the americans people and the world there are some republican critics, today on cbs's face the nation, concerned about a rush to the exit that could lose some of the security gains that have been made, hair sn. >> thank you very much, ed henry. we're going to keep...

Correspondent ed henry is live for us in washington. does this attack suggest, ed, that it's not as rosy as president obama would have us believe? >> >> reporter: absolutely, jon. i think the headline has been the president saying we're going to end this war responsibly but the fact of the matter is we're going to have combat troops in afghanistan for at least another two, 2 1/2 years, and you see the president has now arrived back here in washington, at the white house, after a very long flight from afghanistan. but we should note that the president was blunt and very direct with american tro...