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If we have a phased redeployment where we're as careful getting out as we were careless getting in, then there's not reason why we shouldn't be able to prevent the wholesale slaughter I think some people have suggested might occur.

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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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