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Lee Hamilton: We're pulling out of there. We're pulling our combat forces out there. And we're going to do it gradually. We're going…

On the recordDecember 5, 2006
We're pulling out of there. We're pulling our combat forces out there. And we're going to do it gradually. We're going to do it carefully and deliberately, but we're coming out of here, in the combat sense.

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Lee Hamilton discusses the strategy of withdrawing combat forces from Iraq.

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