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Back to Iraq- Pete Hegseth at the Golden Mosque (video)
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Back to Iraq- Pete Hegseth at the Golden Mosque (video)
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Pete reports on the rebuilding of the Golden Mosque in Samarra, Iraq

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The Corner on National Review Online:  Hegseth Back in Iraq

small dead animals:  Golden Mosque Under Reconstruction

Real Clear Politics - TIME.com:  Hegseth: Palin Understands the Need to Win

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Hegseth Back in Iraq
The Corner on National Review Online — Monday, August 11, 2008 [image] Hegseth Back in Iraq [ Nathan Goulding ] Vets for Freedom chairman Pete Hegseth reporting on the ground in Samarra, with images of the reconstruction of the Golden Mosque: 08/11 11:29 AM

Golden Mosque Under Reconstruction
small dead animals — Golden Mosque Under Reconstruction h/t Posted by Kate at August 11, 2008 8:12 PM

Hegseth: Palin Understands the Need to Win
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com — rnclogo.gif ST. PAUL -- I had a chance to talk with Vets for Freedom Chairmen Pete Hegseth this afternoon at a press conference held by Republican members to highlight the success of the surge in Iraq. Hegseth, who served in the 101st Airborne in Iraq, had just returned from a Samarra, where in 2006 insurgents had destroyed the Golden Mosque, one of the Shiite Muslims' holiest shrines. Even as other turbulent areas of Iraq began to see modest improvement, Hegseth said Samarra, years after the bombing, was "not the place where you saw organic progress." But on his recent trip, Hegseth said that the security environment had improved to such a degree that he ...

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