We just keep hoping that everything will be fine.

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And I mean the responses I think run the gamut from people who would say just give us more troops and everything will be fine, and the other people who are telling me in Anbar province earlier this year that these people don't want us here and we can't find the enemy.

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"They say, 'Well, we'll tell her it's just a cold, or it's just a virus, or we'll tell her she'll have surgery and then everything will be fine, '" said Dr. Lawrence Wolfe, a pediatric hematologist-oncologist at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York.

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