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Oddly, CBS decided to carve out a full 30% of its newshole (6 min out of 19) for anchor Katie Couric's inquiry into whether the troops-out schedule for the US military in Iraq was still on course. She filed a reassuring, but not very newsworthy, q-&-a with Gen Raymond Odierno. Will his troops pull out of every Iraqi city by June as scheduled? "Except for probably Mosul." Could the timetable for total withdrawal by the end of 2010 be rendered null and void? "The chances of that happening are much less today that they were a year ago." How ready are local forces to take over? "We still have some work to do in helping them with logistics, with aviation, with some planning and still a little bit in working some large scale operations."
Then, unaccountably, Couric's conversation with the general veered into trivia. Did you know that he has 4200 friends on Facebook? Did you know that his one-armed son has landed a job with the New York Yankees? Why would you care?
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