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Of this war actually change over the next few years? this measure, doesn't appear by much. this afternoon, the president was at new york's fort drum trying to sell his plan straight to the troops, many of whom just bolt got back from afghanistan, 11,000 of fort drum's own are, in fact, still deployed. >> we have turned a corner where we can begin to bring back some ofç our troops. we are not doing it precipitously. we are going to do it in a -- in a steady way to make sure that the gains that all of you helped to bring about are going to be sustained. >> well, foreign relations committee cha...

Generals here. mcchrystal whether he did this on purpose or not has a history of not understanding how the press works and play the media. one of petraeus greatest strengths, he is the most media savvy military person we've seen since secretary-general colin powell. i think we will see this dirty little problem which is people, as was just said, people in america are not focused enough on this war a and they don't understand the mission and not enough backing for it. petraeus gives the president a huge public relations asset to sell the war and pretty good relationships with the people in afgh...