Retired U.S. Lt. Gen. Jay Garner raises arms with Patriotic Union of Kurdistan leader Jalal Talabani, left, and Kurdistan Democratic Party leader Massoud Barzani in Dokan, northern Iraq, Tuesday, April 22, 2003. Garner is widely respected for his role in Operation Provide Comfort, a three-month effort to repatriate Kurdish refugees who retreated to high mountain camps in Turkey and Iran after being attacked by Saddam Hussein's Republican Guards in the waning days of the 1991 Gulf War. His success in thatendeavor is widely considered to be the primary reason Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld appointed Garner to his current post. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer/Pool)

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