The first thing they did was decide to bring manufacturing home to the US. Very quickly they learned that local manufacturing had distinct advantages.

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"We needed a little more experience to bring us home in the last 15-20 minutes, guys who had been around a while, " Gatland said.

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"He gave me the nod saying he wasn't going to go, so I knew had to pick it up a little more and try to bring us home, bring this win home for us, " James said.

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Increasingly, the debate about Iraq has focused on exactly how and when to bring the US troops home.

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President Barack Obama, who came to office pledging to bring troops home, said on Wednesday that the US left behind a "sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq".

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And that, in turn, allows us to draw down our troops and bring American men and women home.

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If both of those are successful, that's a benchmark of success that should allow us to bring the extra troops that we put in for those purposes home.

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