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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Robert Burns / The Bulletin
June 14, 2008
BRUSSELS, Belgium — It’s a grim gauge of U.S. wars going in opposite directions: American and allied combat deaths in Afghanistan in May passed the monthly toll in Iraq for the first time.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates used the statistical comparison to dramatize his point....