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Many of them have also been rehabilitated. the iraq invasion, you have people on cnn who were mouth pieces for the bush administration and were handing out misleading and inaccurate information to the american public and the world who are treated as legitimate, credible political commentators. i think that is a very serious problem. >> i think part of what happens here is oftentimes in the media the notion of balance is someone whos associated with the democratic party and someone whos associate...

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He wrote in todays new york times, now is not the time to reinvade iraq. even john bolton, one of the most rabid militants thinks we should stay out of it. >> and then there are the dead enders, the people who have dealt with the sheer magnitude of what they brought by doubling down. the method of how badly they got it wrong, is to scream even louder they got it right. to let a little truth work its way in, would annihilate the sense of the world order and their place in it. weve seen this from ...

Three years ago. yes, it was. >> but it was president bush who signed that agreement in 2008 that promised that all those troops would be removed at the end of 2011. >> the planning in 2011 leaked very heavily from the pentagon and the white house was to keep 20 to 30,000 troops after 2011. >> i got to say there are so many people talking about this interview, erin, with paul bremer. there are other members of bush administration who were involved in iraq. this is causing so much controversy. i ...

As we mentioned the, the town that was of about 350 people, mostly destroyed by the tornadoes there. if you would like to find out about ways to help those affected by the disaster, visit our website cnn.com. >> the former u.s. straight tor in iraq is blaming the president now for the instability but is this the time to blame and is that the right person to blame and is this the guy to be doing the blaming? our political commentators weigh in ahead at this hour.

John harwood made the comment on pbs. "eric cantor is a jewish republican. this is a rural, conservative southern district where that is -- you dont have a lot of jewish members of congress from the south." some noting cantor has been elected several times from that district. political commentators have come up with a laundry list of possible reasons for cantors defeat, including his moderate stance on immigration, not spending enough time in his district and his focus on national politics. the ...

People still go to them, put a microphone on them and say, tell us what you think. they shouldnt do that. >> this is what american people want to know from all journalists and commentators. if the argument was we went into iraq and got involved in this impossible country because we were concerned about a nuclear weapon -- thats what they told people -- a nuclear weapon. once we found out they didnt have any nuclear weapons, which took a couple of days, and they had no process of building one, wh...

Establishment and empower the hard-line shiite religious parties that opposed saddam hussein. this meant that a power quickly collapsed. these moves to disband the army, dismantle the bureaucracy and purge sunnis in general might have been more consequence than the actual decision to invade the country. if the bush administration deserves a fair share of blame for losing iraq. what about the obama administration and its decision to withdraw all american forces from the country by the end of 2011...

And i think the news media that are diligent about getting it right will become conspicuous in this atmosphere. >> well, i dont know if they were trying to get it right, but i know one station, of course, that did not or at least one set of commentators that did not touch this, that werent trying to imitate what others were doing. there was almost no talk of the las vegas shooting on foxs prime time program last night after news of the connection the shooters had to the bundy ranch. so whats you...

Do you know anything about her? nobody of course did. >> hillary clinton there talking about sarah palin, sexism, talking about the 2008 election and now everyone is looking forward to 2016 toward the presidential election. >> youll be shocked to know that hillary clinton has not said whether she is running for president or not. however, shes talking now about what could motivate her hypothetically to run if she decides thats what she wants to do. were joined now by our political commentators. g...