Brandon Friedman

Editor, VetVoice.com

Guest

Infantry officer in the Army's 101st Airborne Division in Afghanistan and Iraq; Editor of VetVoice.com, an online site for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and author of The War I Always Wanted: The Illusion of Glory and the Reality of War

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President Bush  today accepted the  recommendations  of General David Petraeus. The draw-down of troops from Iraq will stop when the "surge" ends in July.

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