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Brawner, Greta Wodele - Host
FROM AFGHANISTAN. WAS THERE FOR ABOUT THREE WEEKS. HE WROTE A SERIES -- SHE WROTE A SERIES OF BATTLING THE AFGHANISTAN INSURGENCY. I WANT TO BEGIN WITH...
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Mulrine, Anna - Correspondent
UP A TRAINING CENTER, TRAINING CAMP IN THIS AREA OF THE JUNGLE. IT IS THIS AREA OF PINE FOREST, A VERY MOUNTAINOUS AREA COVER REALLY TOUGH TERRAIN FOR...
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Brawner, Greta Wodele - Host
WHY DOESN'T MATTER? WHY WERE THESE FOLKS THERE? WHY DID IT MATTER? GUEST: THEY WERE
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Mulrine, Anna - Correspondent
CONCERNED THE TRAINING CAMP WAS A DESTINATION CAMPS FOR FIGHTERS IN THE AREA. THERE WERE SOME THAT WERE COMING FAR AND WIDE TO THE CAMP, BEING TRAINED...
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Brawner, Greta Wodele - Host
HAS BEEN CLEARED OUT EVERY YEAR SINCE 20006. GUEST: THAT IS
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Mulrine, Anna - Correspondent
KIND OF THE CRUX OF THE STORY. HOST: HOS-- EVERY YEAR SINCE
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Brawner, Greta Wodele - Host
2006. I THINK WHAT WE DO NOT ALWAYS REALIZE IS THESE ARE SOME REALLY TOUGH BUT BOTTLES AS WELL. IT IS HARD TO RAIN. THESE ARE GROUPS THAT KNOW THE...
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Brawner, Greta Wodele - Host
UP WITH OPERATION HAMMER DOWN. WHAT DO THEY DO? GUEST: THEY ARE SET
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Mulrine, Anna - Correspondent
TO GO INTO THIS AREA, ONE OF THE PLATOON'S IS SET TO GO IN A CLEAR THIS OUT. THE PROBLEM IS, WHEN THEY REACH THE THRESHOLD OF THIS BORDERLINE CAMP AREA,...
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Brawner, Greta Wodele - Host
WHY DID IT LAST WEEK? GUEST: IT LASTED
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Mulrine, Anna - Correspondent
A WEEK BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO HOLD THE LINE. ESSENTIALLY THEY CALL FOR REINFORCEMENTS. IN THE FIRST 36 HOURS OF THIS BATTLE THEY LOST A PLATOON LEADER FROM...
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Brawner, Greta Wodele - Host
SOLDIERS WERE LOSING MORE THAN THE INSURGENTS? GUEST: THEY WERE NOT SURE
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Mulrine, Anna - Correspondent
OF HOW THE INSURGENTS THEY HAD KILLED, BUT IT WAS DIFFICULT FOR THEM TO OPERATE. THEY HAD A SENSE THAT THEY WERE POSSIBLY OUT THE END. SO THEY HAD CALLED...
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Brawner, Greta Wodele - Host
ABOUT THE FACT TO CLEAR OUT THESE AN INSURGENT FIGHTERS WITH THIS BATTLE THEY THOUGHT WOULD LAST 24 HOURS LASTED A WEEK? WHEN THE SOLDIERS ARE SURPRISED...
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Mulrine, Anna - Correspondent
POINT, AND IT IS A GREAT QUESTION. THTHE PLATOON LEADER WAS SHOT IN THE NECK. VERY ACCURATE FIRE. WHEN THIS OTHER PLATOONS THAT WAS REINFORCING THEM...
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Brawner, Greta Wodele - Host
TALK ABOUT THE INSURGENT FOCUTS. WHO MAKES THEM UP? ARE THE FOUR LEADERS? WHAT KIND OF TACTICS TO THE USE OF WEAPONS TO THE HAVE? GUEST:
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Mulrine, Anna - Correspondent
IT IS OF MIXED. IT IS OF LOCAL FIGHTERS. A LOT OF THESE AREAS DO NOT LIKE OUTSIDERS PERIOD. THEY ARE RICK IS THE OUTSIDER. IF THEY WERE NEIGHBORS FROM...
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Brawner, Greta Wodele - Host
KIND OF WEAPONS DO THEY HAVE? GUEST: AK47'S AND A
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Mulrine, Anna - Correspondent
LOT OF GRENADES ARE VERY POPULAR. MORTARS. HOST: WHAT KIND OF
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Brawner, Greta Wodele - Host
TACTICS TO THE USE VERSES WHAT U.S. SOLDIERS USE? GUEST:
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Mulrine, Anna - Correspondent
U.S. SOLDIERS HAVE AIRPOWER, SO THEY CAN CALL IN AIRSTRIKES, BUT THESE FIGHTERS -- THE FIRE WAS QUITE ACCURATE. THEY HAVE PROP -- ROCKET- PROPELLED GRENADES...
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Brawner, Greta Wodele - Host
OUT ONE BOTTLE OF THE AFGHAN INSURGENCY. YOU ALSO WRITE -- GUEST: THEY WERE DOING
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Mulrine, Anna - Correspondent
THESE L- SHAPED AMBUSHES. THEY WERE ATTACKING ONE WAY, AND THEN GOING AROUND AND COMING UP ON THEIR REAR. THEY ALSO ARE WELL AWARE THE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT....
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Brawner, Greta Wodele - Host
TO GET THESE STORIES FROM? GUEST: SOME OF THEM
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Mulrine, Anna - Correspondent
CAME FROM THE SOLDIERS THEMSELVES, IT'S IN PIECES. -- BITS AND PIECES. THERE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE CRASH LANDING AND HOW THEY HAD TO SCROUNGE FOR FOOD...
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Brawner, Greta Wodele - Host
PHONE CALLS. JOHN IS A DEMOCRAT AND FAIRFAX. CALLER: GOOD
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CALLER, -
MORNING. IT SEEMS TO ME WE CANNOT LEARN ANYTHING FROM HISTORY. SHE SAID THE POST TRIED TO CLEAR IT YEAR AFTER YEAR. HOW CRAZY CAN WE BE TO TRY TO PICK...
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Brawner, Greta Wodele - Host
TO CLEAR OUT THIS CAMP YEAR AFTER YEAR? GUEST:
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Mulrine, Anna - Correspondent
I THINK JOHN ECHO THE SENTIMENT OF A LOT OF THE SOLDIERS THAT WERE INVOLVED IN THIS OPERATION. THEY WERE SAYING THEY FELT LIKE THEY WERE FIGHTING FIGHTERS,...
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| 00:13:39 |
Brawner, Greta Wodele - Host
DO THEY SAY THE INSURGENT FIGHTERS KEEP COMING BACK TO THIS CASE SPECIFICALLY? GUEST:
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Mulrine, Anna - Correspondent
EXACTLY. IT IS HARD TO REACH. THERE WAS A WONDERFUL DOCUMENTARY FILMS ABOUT AN OUTPOST OF U.S. MILITARY THAT FOUGHT INCREDIBLY HARD AND HAD INCREDIBLYE...
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Brawner, Greta Wodele - Host
IS JOINING US. WE WILL SHOW YOU THE PHOTOGRAPHS AS WE GO TO THE NEXT PHONE CALL. THEY REPUBLICAN IN MICHIGAN. CALL-- DAVE ARE REPUBLICANS IN MICHIGAN....
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CALLER, -
WE NEED TO CHANGE THE TACTICS. THESE ARE THE TACTICS USED IN JAPAN. TWO NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND THE WHOLE COUNTRY SURRENDERED UNCONDITIONALLY. THE USE OF...
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Brawner, Greta Wodele - Host
TALK ABOUT THE POINT OF SWITCHING TACTICS. GUEST: U.S. FORCES
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Mulrine, Anna - Correspondent
ARE FIGHTING A COUNTER INSURGENCY, WHATWHICH IS VERY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT THE CALLLER MENTIONED. THIS CHARACTER INSURGENCY WARFARE PLACES A PREMIUM OF...
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Brawner, Greta Wodele - Host
IN NEW JERSEY. ARE YOU WITH US?
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CALLER, -
CALLER: YES. THANK YOU FOR C-SPAN. MY COMMENT IS THIS, IS IT TRUE BELOTHAT THE SOVIETS WERE IN THEIR IN THEIR BOYS AND BLOODSTAINED THE SANDOVAL THE...
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Mulrine, Anna - Correspondent
THE CALLLER RAISES A GOOD POINT. A LOT OF THE FIGHTERS -- THE NO. ALLIANCE, WE SUPPORTED THEM IN THE WAR AGAINST THE SOVIETS OBVIOUSLY, AND A LOT OF...
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Brawner, Greta Wodele - Host
HAMMERED DOWN IS WHAT THE BATTLE CALLED ABOUT. IN THE WEEK -- IS WHAT THE BOTTLE WAS CALLED. AND OF THE OPERATIONS WERE INTERRUPTED. FOREIGN TRADINOVERALL...
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CALLER, -
YOUR SHOW, AND SHE ACTS LIKE SHE IS A GRANDFATHER SITTING AROUND A FIRE CAMP TELLING HER GRANDCHILDREN ALL OF THESE FANTASTIC STORIES. SHE IS GLORIFYING...
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Brawner, Greta Wodele - Host
DECIDE TO WRITE THE STORY? GUEST: THESE SOLDIERS WERE
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Mulrine, Anna - Correspondent
STILL STRUGGLING WITH WHAT THEY WENT THROUGH, AND IT IS THE KIND OF BATTLE YOU HEAR ABOUT, BUT THAT WE DO NOT OFTEN -- I THINK THE COVERAGE IS TOUGH...
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Unidentified Speaker, -
THE CULTURE OF AFGHANISTAN PEOPLE. FOR THE AFGHAN NATIONAL SOLDIERS INVOLVED, WORKING SIDE BY SIDE WITH U.S. SOLDIERS?
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Mulrine, Anna - Correspondent
GUEST: THERE WERE. THAT HAS BEEN ONE OF THE QUESTIONS OUTSTANDING. TO WHAT EXTENT ARE THESE SOLDIERS CORD TO BE ABLE TO STEP IN WHEN U.S. FORCES LEAVE?...
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Unidentified Speaker, -
IN CALIFORNIA. GO AHEAD. CALLER: IT
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CALLER, -
KEEPS GOING THROUGH MY MIND WHY PRESIDENT OBAMA WAS GIVEN THE PEACE PRIZE. IT SEEMS LIKE THE MAN GIVEN A PEACE PRIZE WOULD WANT TO GET OUT OF SOMETHING...
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| 00:22:50 |
Brawner, Greta Wodele - Host
BRINGS UP ONE POINT THAT HAS BEEN TALKED ABOUT. WHAT IS THE UPDATE OF THAT? WHERE DOES IT STAND? GUEST: I THINK
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Mulrine, Anna - Correspondent
IT IS POSSIBLE. THE PENTAGON SAYS THERE WILL BE OF LIMITED ADVISORY ROLE. SO NOW YOU HAVE 10,000 FORCES LEAVING BY YEAR'S END. I THINK THAT IS ANOTHER...
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Brawner, Greta Wodele - Host
THIS TWEET -- LET'S HEAR FROM MICHAEL WAS AN INDEPENDENT IN BROOKLYN. CALLER:
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CALLER, -
HIGH. THANK YOU FOR C-SPAN. MY SENSE THAT THE COMPARISON OF BE A NOVICE BUT SUCH AN ILLEGITIMATE COMPARISON. AT SOME POINT WE WILL DECLARE VICTORY AND...
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Mulrine, Anna - Correspondent
THE POINT ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN U.S. TROOPS LEAVE, AND THAT IS WHAT THEY'RE WORKING ON RIGHT NOW. WHAT DOES OF SORT OF RECONCILIATION -- THE MILITARY...
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Brawner, Greta Wodele - Host
IN MASSACHUSETTS. THANK YOU. CALLER: I WOULD LIKE
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CALLER, -
TO EXPLORE THE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT, WHICH LITERALLY SACRIFICES OUR TROOPS IN ORDER TO AVOID NASTY HEADLINES ON THE FRONT PAGES OF NEWSPAPER. MY SON...
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Mulrine, Anna - Correspondent
RAISES A POINT THAT HAS REALLY BEEN DEBATED ON THE GROUND AND UP INSTEAD, TO. -- THAT HAS REALLY BEEN DEBATED ON THE GROUND, TOO. GENERAL DAVID PATRICEETREUS...
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Brawner, Greta Wodele - Host
IN FAIRFAX. CALLER: WE WENT INTO IRAQ,
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CALLER, -
TOOK AWAY THEIR WEAPONS, AND THEN WE ATTACK THEM. YET C-SPAN HAS THIS LADY IS TITLED THE DEFENSE CORRESPONDENT. IT MIGHT SEEM MORE PREPARED TO CALL HER...
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Brawner, Greta Wodele - Host
TALK ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT, THE ADVISOR ROLE. GUEST: I
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Mulrine, Anna - Correspondent
THINK A LOT OF THESE TROOPS ARE NOT ABLE TO READ. THEY ARE HIGH LITERACY RATES. FROM THE VERY BEGINNING IT STARTS OUT WITH READING LESSON SO THEY CAN...
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Brawner, Greta Wodele - Host
IS OUR GUEST. SHE JUST RETURNED FROM AFGHANISTAN. IF YOU WANT TO READ ALL THE STORIES GO TO CSMONITOR.COM. INDEPENDENT CALLLER FROM D.C. CALLER: I WANT...
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CALLER, -
WHY SO MANY SOLDIERS ARE IN IRAQ WHEN SOVIET SOLDIERS TO NOT WANT TO BE THERE. GUEST:
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Mulrine, Anna - Correspondent
WHY ARE WE THERE WOMEN SOLDIERS TO NOT WANT TO BE THERE? CALLER: YES,
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CALLER, -
IT ALSO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DO NOT WANT TO BE THERE. GUEST: I THINK
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Mulrine, Anna - Correspondent
THERE ARE IN OF SOLDIERS THAT DO NOT WANT TO BE THERE. OTHERS THAT FEEL LIKE MAYBE WE CAN HELP THIS COUNTRY. OTHERS TO SAY WHAT ARE WE DOING, WE WILL...
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CALLER, -
I HAVE A QUESTION. WE HAD GERALDO RIVERA SHOWING WE'RE HOPING TO GROW THE OPIUM AND HELPING THEM OUT. THIS IS ALL A BIG ILLUSION. HOST: LE'TSET'S PICK
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Brawner, Greta Wodele - Host
UP A POINT ABOUT THE HEROIN BUSINESS AND OPIUM BUSINESS OUT ABOUT GIVE A STAMP. GUEST: IT IS STILL
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Mulrine, Anna - Correspondent
GOING ON, PARTICULARLY IN THE SOUTH WHERE IT IS THE EPICENTER FOR POPPY AND GROWTH. AND THE SOVIET OFFICIALS HAVE PROTESTED REALLY STRINGENTLY AGAINST...
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Brawner, Greta Wodele - Host
OF "THE WASHINGTON TIMES" THIS MORNING. WHAT IS THE PENTAGON SAID ABOUT THIS? WHAT COMES NEXT? GUEST: AS OF 12:01
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Mulrine, Anna - Correspondent
THIS MORNING REPORTERS WERE ASKING, CAN NOW PERSON WALK INTO A RECRUITING OFFICE AND SAY I AM GAY AND WOULD LIKE TO JOIN THE MILITARY. THEY DO NOT TO...
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Brawner, Greta Wodele - Host
INDEPENDENT FROM NEW YORK ON THE PHONE. CALLER: I HAVE A
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CALLER, -
REQUEST TO C- SPAN FIRST COMMENT THAT I HAVE A COMMENT. MY REQUEST IS I WOULD LIKE TO SEE YOU BREAK YOUR FORMAT DOWN INTO MONEY INSTEAD OF INDEPENDENT,...
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Brawner, Greta Wodele - Host
TO LEAVE IT THERE. THOSE ARE THE FINAL COMMENT ON THE BATTLE FOR AFGHANISTAN INSURGENCY. WE WANT TO THANK OUR GUESTS, ANNA MULRINE FOR BEING WITH US....
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NOTE: The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.