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| | White House Gaggle By Dan Bartlett - Talk Radio News Service |
 | | BARTLETT: Well, the President and the National Security team was fully aware of -- General Casey described was a strategy we've been talking about all along, which is the growing Iraqi security forces, we'll put them in more of a lead situation and more parts of the country. |
 | | BARTLETT: That it's a fundamental breakpoint for the Iraqi people, and that is when you have a permanently elected, sovereign government taking over, they are in charge, it is their country, and it is incumbent upon us to do everything we can to help them succeed. |
 | | Q Dan, if you take some of the things you said together, you talked about various possible deployments similar to the 3,000 troop movement from Kuwait to Anbar, and you said, the plan has been all along what Casey said, gradual reductions in coming time. |
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