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Obama from change agent to pragmatist (AP)

 

Published 12/1/2008 at Yahoo! News: Politics News

AP - The selection of experienced centrists — Hillary Rodham Clinton, Robert Gates and James L. Jones — to head President-elect Barack Obama's national security team points to the possibility that on Iraq, the incoming commander-in-chief may take a more measured path to ending American military involvement than he described during the presidential campaign. (link)

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