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Gates: Report details highs, lows of Afghan fight (AP)


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President Obama's press secretary, Robert Gibbs, updates reporters on the president's schedule during the first daily briefing since returning from Martha's Vineyard, at the White House in Washington, Monday, Aug. 31, 3009. In the meantime, President Obama was spending the afternoon at the golf course as he continues to take some vacation days back in the nation's capitol. Health care reform, the war in Afghanistan and oversight of past U.S. interrogation tactics were brought up at the briefing. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP – Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday the top commander in the troubled Afghanistan war will present a realistic assessment of the conflict this week in a report widely seen as the groundwork for a new request to add more American troops next year.

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