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Agreed there should have been a status of forces agreement. >> that is not true. what i would not have done is left tens of thousands of troops in iraq that would tie us down. that would not help us. >> we left how many troops in germany? and they are still there. how many troops in korea? they are still there. bill clinton said we would only be in the bal kins for a year and we are still there. i think the president was caught up in a campaign promise. you never give up terrain you have taken. ...

Abound with all of this. is that lodgal to you, that that could have happened and did happen? >> oh, absolutely. and in fact, having been involved in operations like this from the planning side and from the -- what i would call over the shoulder observation side, both in the bal kins and in iraq, i can tell you that those kinds of blackouts happen not as a matter of routine but they occur and they are monitored by a series of code words. so what you really hear is just a code word that means you...