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you've come back from afghanistan and iraq with a congressional delegation. and there's a story in "the washington post" about how president karzai seems to be at odds fundamentally with u.s. policy there. did that come up at all in your conversations with him? >> you know, christiane, i'm just stunned. we had a great meeting. we had dinner with senator mccain, lieberman myself and petraeus and with president karzai. the focus of the article is the night raids. we were briefed by our military commanders that the night raids are -- we own the night militarily, are making huge impact on the taliban, insurgency as a whole and having afghan partners. this didn't come up at all. we talked about, quite frankly, looking long term with afghanistan about having two air bases in a permanent fashion in afghanistan to provide stability so at the end of the day there was no discussion about a difference between petraeus and karzai in terms of strategy, and i would just add this, if we cannot use night raids with our afghan partners, then that's a big loss in terms of gain
you've come back from afghanistan and iraq with a congressional delegation. and there's a story in "the washington post" about how president karzai seems to be at odds fundamentally with u.s. policy there. did that come up at all in your conversations with him? >> you know, christiane, i'm just stunned. we had a great meeting. we had dinner with senator mccain, lieberman myself and petraeus and with president karzai. the focus of the article is the night raids. we were briefed...
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was, saddam hussein was directly behind iraq. chris: you're right, it's in the polling. >> the other piece of it was everyone in that inner circle, in the foreign policy team and at the cia, they felt that it was completely justified. and they had the same mindset that he has now, that he revealed to matt lauer. that was the emphasis of the whole foreign policy team. -- the ethos of that whole foreign policy team. chris: but not the agency people? >> the head -- chris: not the agency people? >> but at the time they felt as long as there was no attack, no second 9/11 -- look -- chris: that's a good question. wasn't colin powell off -- he wasn't enthusiastic about the war. >> but he never really laid his stars on the table. he just raised and caved. look, if you break iraq, you're going to own it. and he didn't say, don't do it. chris: high human interest story. this is the book we've gotten a look at. the president said his father supported the war effort. is that true? >> boy, i spent eight minutes in one interview with bush goin
was, saddam hussein was directly behind iraq. chris: you're right, it's in the polling. >> the other piece of it was everyone in that inner circle, in the foreign policy team and at the cia, they felt that it was completely justified. and they had the same mindset that he has now, that he revealed to matt lauer. that was the emphasis of the whole foreign policy team. -- the ethos of that whole foreign policy team. chris: but not the agency people? >> the head -- chris: not the...
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ambassador to iraq. i have to start with the news of the weekend and that is this on again off again agreement to form a new government. it seems as if this is a lot shakier than the administration presented. i want to play for you a sound bite from senator lindsey graham from over the weekend on his concerns about what happened. >> i think i'm in the wing that wants to look outward and have effective engagement throughout the world, so that's why i'm glad to see that president obama's backing off this idea of leaving in 2011, talk about 2014 and make everything iraq. mr. allowy, the biggest vote getter in the recent elections, who is a shia, who married up with sunnis to give a different investigation for iraq, has said this new government is a joke. if he feels that, that's disappointing. it's very important we get a government formed in iraq that's inclusive, that represents the results of the iraqi election, and that is a reliable partner with the united states and the region. so i've got concerns ab
ambassador to iraq. i have to start with the news of the weekend and that is this on again off again agreement to form a new government. it seems as if this is a lot shakier than the administration presented. i want to play for you a sound bite from senator lindsey graham from over the weekend on his concerns about what happened. >> i think i'm in the wing that wants to look outward and have effective engagement throughout the world, so that's why i'm glad to see that president obama's...
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that we have to invade iraq in order to save iraq's women. >> as the citizens of afghanistan and iraq seize the moment, their example will send a message of hope throughout a vital region. young women across the middle east will hear the message that their day of equality and justice is coming. >> mr. bush also then argued that we had to invade iraq in order -- this is novel -- to get new allies. >> the goal in iraq and afghanistan is for there to be democratic and free countries who are allies in the war on terror. that's the goal. >> whatever you think about the we invaded about the oil-for-food program and we invaded for the women and whatever you think about the individual merit of these retroactive rationales for starting the war that we heard from george w. bush after we started the war, the argument in terms that we would not have all those reactive rationales if the reason he said we had to start the war in first place had held up. >> iraq did not have the weapons. >> right. iraq did not have the weapons. and george w. bush knew it and admitted it and changed the explanation f
that we have to invade iraq in order to save iraq's women. >> as the citizens of afghanistan and iraq seize the moment, their example will send a message of hope throughout a vital region. young women across the middle east will hear the message that their day of equality and justice is coming. >> mr. bush also then argued that we had to invade iraq in order -- this is novel -- to get new allies. >> the goal in iraq and afghanistan is for there to be democratic and free...
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, how do you explain we went to war with iraq? >> i think you've asked two questions. one is about the film, which i think is a timeless story of power, the abuse of power and how one stand up to limit power and it goes back to the time of the constitution when power and what to do with it was the central question and led to separation of powers, led to coequal branches of government and the enshrining of the first amendment. with respect to iraq, it's very clear, that they were absolutely committed to overthrowing saddam hussein and any piece of spaghetti they could get to stick up against the wall they were going to use to justify it. and the easy case to make that everybody was going to put the fear of god into everybody was this whole idea that we could not afford to wait for a mushroom cloud or smoking gun to come in the form of a mushroom cloud. that is the whole nuclear case, all of which was built out of whole cloth. i think you see that in the movie in both the yellow cake story and aluminum tube story, which valerie was
, how do you explain we went to war with iraq? >> i think you've asked two questions. one is about the film, which i think is a timeless story of power, the abuse of power and how one stand up to limit power and it goes back to the time of the constitution when power and what to do with it was the central question and led to separation of powers, led to coequal branches of government and the enshrining of the first amendment. with respect to iraq, it's very clear, that they were...
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duty in iraq. when i was transitioning from active duty, i went to a military officer hiring conference. it was kind of like speed dating. there were 12 companies that i was pre-matched with, but walmart turned out to be the best for me. sam walton was in the military, and he understood the importance of developing your people. it's an honor to be in a position of leadership at walmart. i'm captain tracey lloyd, and i work at walmart. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] every day thousands of people are switching from tylenol® to advil. to learn more and get your special offer, go to takeadvil.com. take action. take advil®. on our car insurance. >>> since we did the show in alaska a couple of weeks ago, our executive producer bill wolf has not shaved. which you might have noticed if you follow his vid tweets online. last time we talked about it on the show we were calling it bill's road beard. but, in fact, as an homage to our bizarre joe miller interview bill has declared that he's not going to b
duty in iraq. when i was transitioning from active duty, i went to a military officer hiring conference. it was kind of like speed dating. there were 12 companies that i was pre-matched with, but walmart turned out to be the best for me. sam walton was in the military, and he understood the importance of developing your people. it's an honor to be in a position of leadership at walmart. i'm captain tracey lloyd, and i work at walmart. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] every day thousands of...
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with respect to iraq, it's very clear. that they were absolutely committed to overthrowing saddam hussein and any piece of spaghetti they could get to stick up against the wall they were going to use to justify it and the easy case to make that everybody was going to put the fear of god into everybody was this whole idea that we could not afford to wait for a mushroom cloud or smoking gun to come in the form of a mushroom cloud. that is the whole nuclear case. i think you see that in the movie in both the yellow cake story and aluminum story. >> the chance of biological, chemical or nuclear weapons falling into the hands of terrorists would increase instead of our actions in iraq -- the weapons he described, chemical, biological, hasn't fallen into the hands of saddam hussein yet. sure, we have to worry about weapons all over the world. i am worried about former members of the soviet union, those engineers that have weapons. they exist. about one of those guys selling one. i ain't worried about people in al-qaeda who have
with respect to iraq, it's very clear. that they were absolutely committed to overthrowing saddam hussein and any piece of spaghetti they could get to stick up against the wall they were going to use to justify it and the easy case to make that everybody was going to put the fear of god into everybody was this whole idea that we could not afford to wait for a mushroom cloud or smoking gun to come in the form of a mushroom cloud. that is the whole nuclear case. i think you see that in the movie...
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in iraq for a year. john soltz joins us presently. >>> u.s. troops are still in iraq. some 50,000 falling the end of combat operations. two died there last month. last month saw an attack on a ca ne need ral building. the louisville courier journal referred to the contemptible hipocracy of kentucky senator mitch mcconnell. he was said to have asked privately according to the president for a drawdown in iraq, at the same time he publicly said democrats calling for the same thing were calling for retreat. >>> let's bring in john soltz, who will deploy to iraq after the holidays. john, good evening? >> how are you, keith? >> concerned. how are you? >> you know, i think i'm better than a lot of people think. it's to be expected so -- >> you're fighting a war in two senses. how do you reconcile -- especially on veterans day -- fighting a war that you are opposed to? that you have fought diligently and effectively against? >> well, i think, first off, you've always separated -- or i've always separated my time that i'm spent in the army and my time as a political activist. a
in iraq for a year. john soltz joins us presently. >>> u.s. troops are still in iraq. some 50,000 falling the end of combat operations. two died there last month. last month saw an attack on a ca ne need ral building. the louisville courier journal referred to the contemptible hipocracy of kentucky senator mitch mcconnell. he was said to have asked privately according to the president for a drawdown in iraq, at the same time he publicly said democrats calling for the same thing were...
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same thing with iraq. i think this is a very deliberate decision. he said it is a good thing that saddam hussein is not running iraq and 25 million iraqis are free to select the leaders they want i agree with that. >> the relationship with richard chain nirk the vice president, the former vice president, we have talked the other day about how fruit it was over the scooter libby pardon decision. this is one of the most interesting segments with matt lauer about when he was considering cheney for vice president and the dick cheney confided to him about his family situation about mary. let's play it. >> what was your reaction to that? >> one, a guy that loves his daughter and secondly, he is testing whether or not i cared about it. >> you write he was gauging your tolerance. >> i think so yeah. >> there is nothing in your background that would have led him to believe you wouldn't be tolerant. >> correct. >> wasn't he gauging the tolerance of the business of the republican party? >> no. >> wasn't he saying would this be a issue? >> he was gauging my tol
same thing with iraq. i think this is a very deliberate decision. he said it is a good thing that saddam hussein is not running iraq and 25 million iraqis are free to select the leaders they want i agree with that. >> the relationship with richard chain nirk the vice president, the former vice president, we have talked the other day about how fruit it was over the scooter libby pardon decision. this is one of the most interesting segments with matt lauer about when he was considering...
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he was proud of what he had done in iraq. and he hoped his example might inspire others. >> thanks for your service. >> you're welcome, mr. president. >> god bless you. >> privilege. >> we're not you through running yet. get out of the way. >> i thought about christian a lot that summer and the years that followed. our country owed him our gratitude and support. i owed him something more. i have couldn't let iraq fail. >> sean: ladies and gentlemen, here in our studio audience tonight is the american hero you just saw in that video, staff sergeant christian bag is here. good to see you. thank you for being here. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> sean: it looks like you were beating him. do you remember that? >> he's very humble. first of all, meeting the president at brook army medical center, gave me hope. you know, i had something to work toward. losing both legs shatters your image. shatters your life. i hope this would inspire people around the nation with disabilities like me. >> sean: it inspired me. >> it really inspired m
he was proud of what he had done in iraq. and he hoped his example might inspire others. >> thanks for your service. >> you're welcome, mr. president. >> god bless you. >> privilege. >> we're not you through running yet. get out of the way. >> i thought about christian a lot that summer and the years that followed. our country owed him our gratitude and support. i owed him something more. i have couldn't let iraq fail. >> sean: ladies and gentlemen,...
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troops in iraq. listen to what he was saying publicly. >> the dean democrats in charge, sad saddam would still be in power, murdering his own people like he used to. >> i think this is a particularly bad time to be sending the message to the terrorists in iraq that we might be thinking of running just when they're running. and we're having considerable success in catching them and killing many of them. >> if we cut and run in iraq, they'll follow us here. and we need to remind the american people that the terrorists were at war with us before 9/11. >> so publicly saying no so-called cut and run, that's senator mcconnell's public message in 2006. now former president george w. bush claims in his memoir "decision points" that mcconnell actually asked him to pull some troops out of iraq to boost the gop's chances in the 2006 elections. here's what he writes about a meeting he had with mcconnell in september of 2006, the same month the last quote was from, two months before the midterm election. mr. pres
troops in iraq. listen to what he was saying publicly. >> the dean democrats in charge, sad saddam would still be in power, murdering his own people like he used to. >> i think this is a particularly bad time to be sending the message to the terrorists in iraq that we might be thinking of running just when they're running. and we're having considerable success in catching them and killing many of them. >> if we cut and run in iraq, they'll follow us here. and we need to remind...
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also, what exactly does he think we did in iraq? >> i'd like to see the president say that it's only condition based, you win, then you leave, and that's what we've done in iraq. >> actually, the way that we are still leaving iraq is that george w. bush and dick cheney negotiated with the iraqi government a date certain by which we would leave regardless of what was going on in that country. they negotiated a timetable for withdrawal. george bush signed it and now our country is following through on that signed agreement. an agreement that really had nothing to do with conditions on the ground. the sheer ahistorical incoherence of john mccain's vehement response to this question. his lurch toward partisan gain when he was asked about afghanistan is as sure as sign as we get in american politics we are likely up for another round of partisan politicking about the war. democratic president says he wants to end a war, that's essentially the cue for the republican party's theme song, their fight song to start up just at the thought of i
also, what exactly does he think we did in iraq? >> i'd like to see the president say that it's only condition based, you win, then you leave, and that's what we've done in iraq. >> actually, the way that we are still leaving iraq is that george w. bush and dick cheney negotiated with the iraqi government a date certain by which we would leave regardless of what was going on in that country. they negotiated a timetable for withdrawal. george bush signed it and now our country is...
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first of all, saying that iraq needed to be invaded, that iraq was the greatest threat to america. i have a new york city and "washington post" editorial saying the same thing. and then i have, when bill clinton was president, of course. then i have what people were saying on the same day that george w. bush gave that speech. bush may have been blind to the dangers that were ahead of us, but the whole country was blind to it, including a lot of people on the left, who later castigated him for those same words. >> joe, it speaks to your point 30 seconds before you said this, once he realized combat operations and the mission was not accomplished, he should have been willing to say that. two, if he had just stayed focused on afghanistan and just stayed focused on finding bin laden, imagine not only the different political optics, substantively how much we would have accomplished in the middle east, i believe we would have accomplished a lot more and held the world together in all our efforts. >> harold, let me say this, though. yes. if we had not gone into iraq, that would have been
first of all, saying that iraq needed to be invaded, that iraq was the greatest threat to america. i have a new york city and "washington post" editorial saying the same thing. and then i have, when bill clinton was president, of course. then i have what people were saying on the same day that george w. bush gave that speech. bush may have been blind to the dangers that were ahead of us, but the whole country was blind to it, including a lot of people on the left, who later castigated...
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. >>> ragu government takes shape in iraq. we'll ask the sunday panel about the latest developments in america's two wars. and our power player of the week. a crazy heart academy award winner makes it his mission to ended childhood hunger all right now on "fox news sunday." and hello again from fox news in washington. congress gets back to work this week on some key issues that were left unfinished before the election. with a new political reelity here after the mid terms we want to discuss the president's agenda with white house senior advisor david axelrod who joins us from chicago. start with the bush tax cuts that expire at the the end of the year. seems to be confusion about where the president stands so let's clear that up. does the president rule out a permanent extension of all of the tax cuts for the middle class as well as those who make more than $250,000 a year? >> i think the president's position has not changed at all and he made it clear again overseas. the president believes we should extend the tax cuts for th
. >>> ragu government takes shape in iraq. we'll ask the sunday panel about the latest developments in america's two wars. and our power player of the week. a crazy heart academy award winner makes it his mission to ended childhood hunger all right now on "fox news sunday." and hello again from fox news in washington. congress gets back to work this week on some key issues that were left unfinished before the election. with a new political reelity here after the mid terms we...
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it's not on one policy like i'm against iraq war or i'm against the afghan war. it's an attack against the american government's ability to conduct its foreign policy. meaning america's being attacked in a cyber attack by a particular group of individuals who are trying to harm american foreign policy and therefore america. and therefore in my opinion, harm the interests of the west. >> rose: david, do you think this is an attack in the terms jamie's is talking about. >> you know, i'm not certain that it began as such an attack. we're not certain how these documents leaked out. there have certainly been allegations against a prooifd who is accused of having taken some of these things out of a computer system, but i think the important thing to remember that all of us had to wrestle with at the time-- and these are never easy decisions about revealing classified documents-- is that these documents were coming out anyway. wikileaks was going to publish them. the question that we had was could we along the way provide a context for them so that people understood whe
it's not on one policy like i'm against iraq war or i'm against the afghan war. it's an attack against the american government's ability to conduct its foreign policy. meaning america's being attacked in a cyber attack by a particular group of individuals who are trying to harm american foreign policy and therefore america. and therefore in my opinion, harm the interests of the west. >> rose: david, do you think this is an attack in the terms jamie's is talking about. >> you know,...
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iraq was still very difficult. and so katrina came along, and it gave critics an opportunity to kind of undermine the presidency, i guess. >> so many times in the book you take pride in the fact that you were as a president were someone went out there and took decisive action. >> yes. >> whether it was controversial or second-guessed or not, you took decisive action. katrina was one of the examples where you didn't. >> the lack of crisp response was a failure at all levels of government. >> you are tough in the book on former governor of louisiana, kathleen blanco, tough on ray nagin. you said after four days it was clear to you the state and local leaders in louisiana could not lead. >> i don't think i was tough. i think i was fair. i think i say to a roomful of louisiana politicians, who's in charge of security? he says the mayor and the governor. the governor who is in charge of security. i get no answer. >> you went on to say she dragged her feet. for a come of days she could not decide if she would allow you o
iraq was still very difficult. and so katrina came along, and it gave critics an opportunity to kind of undermine the presidency, i guess. >> so many times in the book you take pride in the fact that you were as a president were someone went out there and took decisive action. >> yes. >> whether it was controversial or second-guessed or not, you took decisive action. katrina was one of the examples where you didn't. >> the lack of crisp response was a failure at all...
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to have a counter balance of iraq on iran protected our backside. now we own iraq and we have an iran that's empowered partnering with chavez and others in our hemisphere and we really have a tiger on our hands. >> governor, thanks for joining us. time is short. join us again in the near future and come visit. we look forward to having you join us here in person. >> great stopping by. >> thank you. >> thank, governor. >> we'll be right back. into electricity, so it's more efficient. so i thought... what if we put that same system onto one of these? [ people screaming ] who knows? we might be able to create the world's first self-sustaining amusement park. [ male announcer ] how would you use toyota technology to make a better world? learn how to share your ideas at toyota.com/ideasforgood. my kids say i speak a different language. but i love math and math and science develop new ideas. we've used hydrogen in our plants for decades. the old hydrogen units were very large. recently, we've been able to reduce that. then our scientists said "what if we
to have a counter balance of iraq on iran protected our backside. now we own iraq and we have an iran that's empowered partnering with chavez and others in our hemisphere and we really have a tiger on our hands. >> governor, thanks for joining us. time is short. join us again in the near future and come visit. we look forward to having you join us here in person. >> great stopping by. >> thank you. >> thank, governor. >> we'll be right back. into electricity, so...
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>> i never thought i'd be nostalgic for iraq, but -- >> oh, my god. >> but i -- iraq has oil. it has universities. it has infrastructure, a middle class, a bureaucracy. for the most part, afghanistan has none of those things. >> can you believe you were nostalgic for iraq? >> yeah. geez. that was a country you could kind of rebuild and put back together, which was done. >> right. >> afghanistan, you're kind of starting from scratch. >> it's just dust. >> about a month ago i had dinner with a guy and his son, a young captain in the marine corps just back from afghanistan, and we were talking about his, you know, job in afghanistan. he was there for seven months, and he said at dinner something that struck me. he said, he was in hellman province, if we withdrew today having disarmed every member of the taliban that we could find in hellman province, they'd end up throwing rocks at us. >> right. >> no weapons. they'd take any weapon. just throw rocks at us. >> i mean, hellman province is the -- that's the epicenter, where it's going to be, you know, won or lost, right there. that
>> i never thought i'd be nostalgic for iraq, but -- >> oh, my god. >> but i -- iraq has oil. it has universities. it has infrastructure, a middle class, a bureaucracy. for the most part, afghanistan has none of those things. >> can you believe you were nostalgic for iraq? >> yeah. geez. that was a country you could kind of rebuild and put back together, which was done. >> right. >> afghanistan, you're kind of starting from scratch. >> it's just...
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>> well, he actually only made a few claims to justify the invasion of iraq. one of them was that saddam had tried to seek uranium from niger, and what's incredible in his memoir is that as soon as -- because you remember joe wilson was the one who was sent to africa to investigate this claim and came back and said it could not have happened. what's incredible is as soon as he published his op-ed piece, the white house the next day retracted the statement, said it was a mistake for that uranium claim to have ended up in the state of the union address. and yet suddenly in his memoir he's -- seems to be contradicting his own administration from a couple years ago. >> that 16-word statement came from a british report at the time. >> yeah. >> and, you know, we've all acknowledged there was some very bad intelligence from all directions during that period. but yours maybe advances the idea that they actually knew this was faulty intelligence and were insistent on pushing forward in ordero justify the war. >> seeing the story from the point of view of valerie plame
>> well, he actually only made a few claims to justify the invasion of iraq. one of them was that saddam had tried to seek uranium from niger, and what's incredible in his memoir is that as soon as -- because you remember joe wilson was the one who was sent to africa to investigate this claim and came back and said it could not have happened. what's incredible is as soon as he published his op-ed piece, the white house the next day retracted the statement, said it was a mistake for that...
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he came to iraq. he stayed for a couple of weeks, worked with the military intelligence people, brought contractors that had experience from guantanamo, and all of the procedures started to change. and that was when they transferred responsibility for abu ghraib from my control to the military intelligence commander's control. >> and you've talked about the tremendous -- >> so all of those -- >> you talk about the tremendous pressure that everyone was under to get actionable intelligence out of the prisoners. was there too much pressure, so much so that people stopped caring about procedures and how they were doing things? >> i think they were completely blind to how far they were moving away from what the policies were they had practiced and they adhered to. in 2003, the military intelligence interrogation teams who were following the law were getting very little information from the people that were being brought in. and they were asking them a set of questions that was still following the direction
he came to iraq. he stayed for a couple of weeks, worked with the military intelligence people, brought contractors that had experience from guantanamo, and all of the procedures started to change. and that was when they transferred responsibility for abu ghraib from my control to the military intelligence commander's control. >> and you've talked about the tremendous -- >> so all of those -- >> you talk about the tremendous pressure that everyone was under to get actionable...
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to have a counter balance of iraq on iran protected our backside. now we own iraq and we have an iran that's empowered partnering with chavez and others in our hemisphere and we really have a tiger on our hands. >> governor, thanks for joining us. time is short. join us again in the near future and come visit. we look forward to having you join us here in person. >> great stopping by. >> thank you. >> thank, governor. >> we'll be right back. ????? >> i'm joe johns. the remains of an ohio mom, her 10-year-old son and a family friend have been found in a wooded area. the bodies were in plastic bags inside the hollow of a tree. police say matthew hoffman arrested for kidnapping the boy's sister revealed the location of the bodies. the alleged barefoot bandit pleaded not guilty in federal court in a seattle courtroom today. colton harris moore is accused of stealing planes, books and cars during a crime spree that lasted two years, often shoeless. dogs are among the most popular pets in the world, but how smart are they? tonight on "anderson 360" ho
to have a counter balance of iraq on iran protected our backside. now we own iraq and we have an iran that's empowered partnering with chavez and others in our hemisphere and we really have a tiger on our hands. >> governor, thanks for joining us. time is short. join us again in the near future and come visit. we look forward to having you join us here in person. >> great stopping by. >> thank you. >> thank, governor. >> we'll be right back. ????? >> i'm...
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just like the commitment we made in iraq. >> iraq veteran is the executive director of vets for freedom -- pete, a headline today in the "washington post," troublesome at least to me and a bit mystifying. it talks about how our first heavy tank use is about to commence in afghanistan. i thought we were on our way out. >> i don't think it's up to you or i to determine what tactics we should be using, but this has been the problem all along. it's always for this administration been about finding a way out. how soon can we get out? you read woodward's back, getting out as soon as possible. >> how soon should it be? >> we want to win our damn war. what happens on the ground in afghanistan matters. there's a reason president bush recommitted to iraq. because it was important we finish it. we need a place, we can't have the rest of the world -- >> it seems like there's no end to it. no representation of al-qaeda even left in afghanistan. >> it's not about how many members are in afghanistan. there's in fantasy land, this idea that folks think that we can just leave and if we do, things will g
just like the commitment we made in iraq. >> iraq veteran is the executive director of vets for freedom -- pete, a headline today in the "washington post," troublesome at least to me and a bit mystifying. it talks about how our first heavy tank use is about to commence in afghanistan. i thought we were on our way out. >> i don't think it's up to you or i to determine what tactics we should be using, but this has been the problem all along. it's always for this...
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that wasn't the case, the case of going to iraq was weapons of mass destruction. it's a simple question, would you have done it if you knew the weapons of mass destruction weren't there. there's a yes or no he can deliver to that question? >> i think there is. it's another proof for me that this is a man who doesn't know how to do critical self-analysis, even if he does, he doesn't know how to deal with it after he's done it. i also think i have two possibilities there in my own conclusion. one is,that they did indeed know what they were doing with the intelligence, and they knew that they were lying about it. or that they really believed the intelligence and since it didn't happen, they don't have anyway to tell the american people that that was a mistake, and that was the problem. i think 300,000 or so dead iraqis, about 3 million in the diaspra, dead coalition members, 30,000 plus casualties amongst the coalition members and so forth. a wonderful sentence in "our kind of trader" it says the sacrifice of brave men does not justify the pursuit of an unjust cause.
that wasn't the case, the case of going to iraq was weapons of mass destruction. it's a simple question, would you have done it if you knew the weapons of mass destruction weren't there. there's a yes or no he can deliver to that question? >> i think there is. it's another proof for me that this is a man who doesn't know how to do critical self-analysis, even if he does, he doesn't know how to deal with it after he's done it. i also think i have two possibilities there in my own...
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bush on the iraq war and water-boarding. a defense i don't agree with but i think was interesting to hear. in which john stewart does not throw up, despite having an acute stomach thing, the poor guy. the john stewart interview is right here. >> john stewart, thank you for coming in. i know you're under the weather. it's nice of you to come in. >> i have the bu-bons. >> you're here at the conflicted perpetuator. >> the evil dr. doofus. >> you don't do that many interviews. i think i've read every one you've done. i tend to overprepare. why did you want to talk to me? >> after the rally it -- you know, whenever you go out there,
bush on the iraq war and water-boarding. a defense i don't agree with but i think was interesting to hear. in which john stewart does not throw up, despite having an acute stomach thing, the poor guy. the john stewart interview is right here. >> john stewart, thank you for coming in. i know you're under the weather. it's nice of you to come in. >> i have the bu-bons. >> you're here at the conflicted perpetuator. >> the evil dr. doofus. >> you don't do that many...
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no decision more controversial than the one in 2003 to launch a strike iraq. you bring everybody inside. you talk about tommy franks, you guys have everything you need win. and you get a yes, sir. and you've got to make ry interesting moment. you write about leaving the situation room. you knew were you putting kids in harm's way. you said you walked up stairs through the oval office, slow lap around the south lawn. you said a prayer for our troops. safety of our country. the strength -- to have strength in the days ahead. there was one man that understood what you were feeling. you sat down at your desk and you scrawled out a letter to? >> to my dad, yeah. >> sean: i have the letter here. >> i can't read it, i wouldn't make it through. his letter to me was such a touching response. i hope that the reader of the book will have a better sense of my dad, his compassion and his -- what it is like to be the father of the president. >> sean: also, that was the toughest decision you made your life? >> it was. >> sean: to make that decision. >> it is. >> sean: your f
no decision more controversial than the one in 2003 to launch a strike iraq. you bring everybody inside. you talk about tommy franks, you guys have everything you need win. and you get a yes, sir. and you've got to make ry interesting moment. you write about leaving the situation room. you knew were you putting kids in harm's way. you said you walked up stairs through the oval office, slow lap around the south lawn. you said a prayer for our troops. safety of our country. the strength -- to...
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news communists have veterans in afghanistan and iraq. there are people all over america today who listen to glenn beck who now believe iava is a communist front group because glenn beck said so. they are not a communist group. they don't have a commucommunist. they have do not take money from move on or fox men. even if they did, it would still be the patriotic equivalent of a mortal sin to do what glenn beck did this week when he in totally made-up detail launched this 100% false attack on iraq and afghanistan veterans of america. a nonpartisan group that does nothing wrong and nothing like what all glenn beck's listeners now think they do. i generally try to be of good cheer when it comes to people being dumb in the media. this is just disgusting. leave the veterans alone. d she'n with no protective gear? her hands could dry out. [ female announcer ] dawn hand renewal with olay beauty. it helps your hands seal in moisture while you do the dishes. dawn does more... [ spongecaster ] so it's not a chore. we fill them with extraordinary cr
news communists have veterans in afghanistan and iraq. there are people all over america today who listen to glenn beck who now believe iava is a communist front group because glenn beck said so. they are not a communist group. they don't have a commucommunist. they have do not take money from move on or fox men. even if they did, it would still be the patriotic equivalent of a mortal sin to do what glenn beck did this week when he in totally made-up detail launched this 100% false attack on...
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. >> on the decision to go to war in iraq, he says he was the decider. in a conversation you had over lunch with dick cheney and the buildup over the war in iraq, he said to you are you going to take care of this guy or not? i was surprised at the tone the vice president would use with you, and is it surprising to you? >> no, we have a frank relationship. >> his comment leads to the question was dick cheney pushing you to go to war with iraq? >> it doesn't matter if he was or not, and i was the guy that made the decisions when we move, and he might have said saying let's go, and i said no. >> he is still haunted by the fact that the intelligence turned out to be wrong and weapons of mass destruction were not found in iraq. >> your words, nobody was more sickened or angry than i was when we did not have weapons of mass destruction. you still have a sickening feeling about it? >> i do. >> was there the consideration of apologizing to the american people? >> apologizing would basically say the decision was the wrong decision, and i don't believe that it was
. >> on the decision to go to war in iraq, he says he was the decider. in a conversation you had over lunch with dick cheney and the buildup over the war in iraq, he said to you are you going to take care of this guy or not? i was surprised at the tone the vice president would use with you, and is it surprising to you? >> no, we have a frank relationship. >> his comment leads to the question was dick cheney pushing you to go to war with iraq? >> it doesn't matter if he...
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that was true in iraq. you need to get the intelligence situation right at the front end and i thought that was done very well by this administration, led by the president. we did not go into to raise the stakes in afghanistan because we didn't know what was going on there. >> rose: did you feel like you had a full opportunity to participate and engage and be listened to at every stage of that? >> i did. right up to the very end. there was a point about the last month of deliberations when the white house said we've got the intelligence picture. now we're going to make the policy. and neither i nor leon panetta was invited to those meetings. i would have liked to have been there but we had gotten the intelligence picture -- >> why didn't they want you there at that stage? one more person would not have done any damage, i would assume? >> they had the idea that the intelligence-- the intelligence picture is separate from the policy decisions, and once the intelligence has been conveyed, time over to the poli
that was true in iraq. you need to get the intelligence situation right at the front end and i thought that was done very well by this administration, led by the president. we did not go into to raise the stakes in afghanistan because we didn't know what was going on there. >> rose: did you feel like you had a full opportunity to participate and engage and be listened to at every stage of that? >> i did. right up to the very end. there was a point about the last month of...
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officials over the years, and near rosen is a journalist and filmmaker who has spent years in iraq and afghanistan reporting on america's wars there. welcome. so, max, is ending the wars the right way to think about this in the first place? >> i think our goal should be not so much to end the war, but our transition our troops to the afghan national security forces. and i think that's something that's eminently achievable by the 2014 deadline that nato is going to put out there. just in the past couple of years, you've seen the afghan security forces increase in size from about 150,000 to more than 250,000, and their quality has been going up because of more intensive mentoring and a closer working relationship with american troops. so that should be our goal. it should not be to make afghanistan as peaceful as switzerla switzerland. we don't have to. all we have to do is make sure that the afghan government can defend its own territory. that's our real objective. >> what's the problem with that? >> on paper, you have 20,000 troops, but in reality, you only have a fraction of that beca
officials over the years, and near rosen is a journalist and filmmaker who has spent years in iraq and afghanistan reporting on america's wars there. welcome. so, max, is ending the wars the right way to think about this in the first place? >> i think our goal should be not so much to end the war, but our transition our troops to the afghan national security forces. and i think that's something that's eminently achievable by the 2014 deadline that nato is going to put out there. just in...