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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates answers questions from Sens. Edward M. Kennedy, left, Carl Levin, and John W. Warner, during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the fiscal 2009 defense budget and supplemental funding requests for the global war on terror, Feb. 6, 2008.

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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates answers questions from Sens. Edward M. Kennedy, left, Carl Levin, and John W. Warner, during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the fiscal 2009 defense budget and supplemental funding requests for the global war on terror, Feb. 6, 2008.

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