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Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, addresses the media at the Foreign Press Center in Washington, D.C., Dec. 8, 2009. Mullen took questions from the international press regarding President Barack Obama's decision to send an additional 30,000 troops to the war in Afghanistan.

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Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, addresses the media at the Foreign Press Center in Washington, D.C., Dec. 8, 2009. Mullen took questions from the international press regarding President Barack Obama's decision to send an additional 30,000 troops to the war in Afghanistan.

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