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Retired Maj. Gen. John Bastise testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the status of Iraq since the surge, as Anthony H. Cordesman, chairman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (R) listens in Washington on Capitol Hill on June 27, 2007. (UPI Photo/Dominic Bracco II)

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