Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told U.S. troops in Afghanistan that the U.S. is winning the war on Wednesday morning. “We’re moving in the right direction and we’re winning this very tough conflict,” Panetta said in an address to troops at a forward operating base near the border with Pakistan.
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