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How Obama Learned to Kill

May 29, 2012 at 10:09 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The Daily Beast runs excerpts from a new book, Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency, which shows President Obama wasn’t always “the commander in chief who never flinches” as the White House likes to portray.

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