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"Tom Cruise underplayed the politics, leaving it to Robert Redford to lash out against the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq at the center of "Lions for Lambs," for which the pair held their first presser Tuesday at the Rome Film Festival.(snip) "Our country has hit a point where we have lost so much," he said. "We have lost lives, we've lost sacred freedoms, we've lost financial stability; we've lost our position of respect on the world stage."(said Redford) Cruise, kept largely above the political fray, merely expressing hope that the talky multi-strand pic in which he plays a...