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Reassured to hear that. is it okay to share that with others? >> all right, that was last week. well, today, vice president joe biden said this to nbc's driand mitchell. >> the president's strategy is the defense department's strategy, it is bob gates' strategy, it's a unified strategy. >> all right. cornell, first to you. it's your party. so is everyone here really in agreement? >> you know what, one thing we used to do really well in the obama campaign is stay on message and get messages straight. clearly, some people have had conversations and don't be surprised if everyone is on message no...

Mcchrystal is to petraeus as george patton was to dwight eisenhower. general mcchrystal's a great warrior general, but they tried to make him into a diplomat and it didn't work. i think what you've got now is the entire administration, military and civilians at the highest command authority saying, this is the direction we're going, and we'll see how it works out. >> wow, ed, would you agree with rich that this is potentially a plus for obama to place mcchrystal with petraeus now? >> i think mcchrystal is a great general and i wouldn't have replaced him, but that's irrelevant. i'm not the comm...