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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There can no longer be any doubt that the violence and chaos in Iraq are getting worse, that our current strategy is failing, and that we need to work together on a new strategy that will make it possible for us to bring our troops home.

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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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The president said that Iraqi troops are increasingly taking the lead in the fight against the insurgency, and that as they become more capable, the US will be able to bring troops home.

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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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