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"And that focus kept a lot of Marines alive in Helmand province, kept a lot of Marines alive in Iraq, in the Sunni Triangle." "So, again, I can't apologize for previous generations of Marines to ...

Eight American soldiers were reported to have been killed in an ambush in the Iraqi Sunni Triangle town of Khaldiyah. Their convoy was hit by a remote-controlled roadside bomb and then came under ...