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 MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Friday that President Bush grossly misunderstands his role as commander in chief.
Addressing a New Hampshire audience, the Illinois senator commented on the president's repeated statements that he would rather listen to military leaders than politicians in Washington on U.S. strategy in Iraq.
"When President Bush says, 'I just want to give the commanders what they want, listen to the generals,' he doesn't understand how we work here in America. Civilians control the military and we are supposed to set the mission for the generals and then the generals should carry out the mission," Obama said at an outdoor town hall meeting.
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