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Added: Nov 18, 2008

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http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/vidLink.php?b=1223432166&e=1223432346&n=001SEN. OBAMA: I'll be very brief.We are going to have to make the Iraqi government start takingmore responsibility, withdraw our troops in a responsible way, overtime, because we're going to have to put some additional troops inAfghanistan.General McKiernan, the commander in Afghanistan right now, isdesperate for more help, because our bases and outposts are nowtargets for more aggressive Afghan -- Taliban offensives.We're also going to have to work with the Karzai government, andwhen I met with President Karzai, I was very clear that you are goingto have to do better by your people in order for us to gain thepopular support that's necessary. I don't think he has to be adictator. We -- we want a democracy in Afghanistan. But we have tohave a government that is responsive to the Afghan people, and franklyit's just not responsive right now.MR. BROKAW: Senator McCain, briefly.SEN. MCCAIN: General Petraeus has just taken over a position ofresponsibility, where he has the command and will really set the tonefor the strategy and tactics that are using -- I've had conversationswith him. It is the same overall strategy.Of course we have to do some things tactically, some of whichSenator Obama is -- is correct on.We have to double the size of theAfghan army. We have to have a streamlined NATO command structure.We have to do a lot of things. We have to work much more closely withthe Pakistanis.But most importantly, we have to have the same strategy whichSenator Obama said wouldn't work, couldn't work -- still fails toadmit that he was wrong about Iraq

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