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The general who soon will lead 25,00 Marines in Iraq said Wednesday that " the experts " were wrong when they predicted that repeated deployments would strain military families to the breaking point. Reenlistments among Marines remain high, which would not be the case if families objected, Maj. Gen. John Kelly told several hundred Marines who are set to deploy soon to Anbar province west of Baghdad.The old adage says you enlist the Marine but you reenlist the wife and family, said Kelly, whose two sons are Marines who have served in Iraq. Many Marine families have weathered two, three, even four deployments, and Marine officials say they are well aware of the stresses on them.