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In front of a portrait of the Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, gestures, in a gathering of recovered drug addicts for a ceremony commemorating International Day Against Drug Abuse, at the Azadi (Freedom) sport complex, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, June 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) (Vahid Salemi)

Right-wing blames Iran for downed U.S. chopper

The shadow of a medevac helicopter from the U.S. Army's Task Force Shadow "Dust Off", Charlie Company 1-52, comes in to land on a mission on the outskirts of Kandahar, Afghanistan, Friday Aug 5, 2011.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) (AP)

Kimberly Dozier, Solomon Moore

In this undated image made available by the provincial media center Kandahar Mayor Ghulam Haider Hamidi addresses a press conference in Kandahar south of Kabul, Afghanistan. The mayor of Kandahar was assassinated on Wednesday July 27, 2011 by a suicide bomber who hid explosives in his turban Afghan officials said. The Taliban say they sent the suicide bomber who killed the mayor of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan. Hamidi was the third major powerbroker from the south to be slain this month. (AP Photo/Provincial Media Center ) (AP)

Deb Riechmann, Mirwais Khan

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-- ADDS DAY AND DATE PHOTO WAS MADE -- In this photo provided by ISAF Regional Command (South), U.S. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, commanding general of the NATO International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and U.S. Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A), salutes before administering the oath of re-affirmation and re-enlistment to 235 U.S. service members during a ceremony called "Operation Enduring Commitment - The Red, White and True," held at Kandahar Airfield in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Monday July 4, 2011. (AP Photo/ U.S. Navy Lt. j.g. Haraz N. Ghanbari) (AP)

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Natasha Lennard

FILE - In this Wednesday, April 14, 2010 file photo Ahmad Wali Karzai, half-brother of Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai gestures during an interview with The Associated Press in Kandahar, Afghanistan. An Afghan official says Afghan President Hamid Karzai's half brother has been killed in southern Afghanistan. Zalmai Ayubi, the spokesman for Kandahar province, says that Ahmad Wali Karzai was shot dead on Tuesday July 12, 2011. Ahmad Wali Karzai, who was head of the Kandahar provincial council, had become a political liability for the Karzai government _ a symbol of cronyism and a lightning rod for criticism of all that is wrong with the Karzai administration. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File) (Associated Press)

Heidi Vogt, Mirwais Khan

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The unlikely couple: Mila Kunis and Sgt. Scott Moore.

U.S. Senator John McCain, R-Ariz, speaks with other U.S. Senators Joe Lieberman, I-Conn, and Lindsay Graham, R-SC, unseen, during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan Sunday, July 3, 2011. Three U.S. Senators visiting Kabul on Sunday say they worry that President Barack Obama's planned withdrawal of 33,000 American troops by September 2012 could undermine Afghan morale, embolden the insurgency, and hamper efforts to defeat Taliban fighters in eastern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) (AP)

Afghans carrying anti Pakistan slogans during a demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday, July 2, 2011. Several hundred people demonstrated against rocket attacks that have killed an estimated 36 civilians along the eastern border with Pakistan in recent weeks. Pakistan's army has said no rounds were intentionally fired but that some may have accidentally fallen in Afghanistan in fighting with militants carrying out cross-border attacks. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) (AP)

Rahim Faiez, Solomon Moore

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President Obama delivers an address on his plan to drawdown U.S. troops in Afghanistan on Wednesday, June 22, 2011

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President Barack Obama visits with soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division, many of whom have just returned from Afghanistan, Thursday, June 23, 2011, in Fort Drum, N.Y. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP)

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An injured Afghan man, a victim of a blast lies in a hospital bed in Kunduz city in the northern province of Kunduz, Afghanistan, Saturday, June 25, 2011. A bicycle rigged with explosives ripped through a bazaar in the Khanabad district of Kunduz province on Friday, killing at least 10 people, including a police officer. At least 24 people were wounded in the attack, according to an Interior Ministry statement. (AP Photo/Balal) (AP)

Rahim Faiez, Solomon Moore

President Barack Obama delivers a televised address from the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 22, 2011 on his plan to drawdown U.S. troops in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool) (AP)

Ben Feller, Julie Pace

President Barack Obama delivers a televised address from the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 22, 2011 on his plan to drawdown U.S. troops in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool) (AP)

Natasha Lennard

President Barack Obama delivers a televised address from the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 22, 2011 on his plan to drawdown U.S. troops in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool) (Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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CORRECTS DATE TO JUNE 15, 2010 - FILE - In this June 15, 2011 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in Pensacola, Fla. Nearing a critical benchmark in the Afghanistan war, President Barack Obama is considering both how many U.S. troops to bring home next month and a broader withdrawal plan to give Afghans control of their security in 2014. But there are deep divisions over how to achieve that, with military leaders favoring a gradual troop reduction and other advisers pushing for a significant decrease in coming months. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) (AP)

Julie Pace, Robert Burns

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FILE - In this June 15, 2011 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in Pensacola, Fla. Nearing a critical benchmark in the Afghanistan war, President Barack Obama is considering both how many U.S. troops to bring home next month and a broader withdrawal plan to give Afghans control of their security in 2014. But there are deep divisions over how to achieve that, with military leaders favoring a gradual troop reduction and other advisers pushing for a significant decrease in coming months. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) (AP)

America's Endless War continues to escalate

Glenn Greenwald

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