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Published 12/6/2008 at Yahoo! News: Politics News
AP - For a Democrat whose opposition to the Iraq war was a campaign centerpiece, President-elect Barack Obama is remarkably in sync with Defense Secretary Robert Gates on many core defense and national security issues even Iraq.
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