Kevin Ryan

Senior Fellow, Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

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Retired Army brigadier general, his last assignment was as Deputy Director for Army Strategy, Plans and Policy at the Pentagon; Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government

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In what was likely his last news conference of 2006 , President Bush said today, "We're not winning" in Iraq but "we're not losing," and eventually "we're going to win."

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