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Back when he was running for president in 2007 and 2008, one of the things that he ran on back then, one of the things that essentially made barack obama a viable candidate, among the slew of powerful democrats who also ran with him back then including then senator hillary clinton and one of the things that made him stand out was that he was against the iraq war from the get go. the campaign in 2008 ended up being a referendum on how we do war and how we wanted our country to do war in the futur...

Hillary clinton has not come out and addressed this head on. she is also not participating in the debate while she campaigns over the nomination for presidency. and the entire field will have to deal with this question because the elections during wartime are elections that are about foreign policy they are about counter terrorism. they are about how we choose to do war. president obamas first and second elections were referendums on the bush wars and what those wars did to our country. and this...

And i think senator clinton was wrong in her judgments on that. >> i opposed going to war in iraq. senator mccain was one of washingtons biggest supporters for the war. this is an area where senator cane and i have have a fundamental difference because i think the first question is whether we should have gone into the war in the first place. >> part of what won him the nomination against hillary clinton in 2008 was he was against the war and she was for it. and part of what won barack obama the ...

Maybe well decide that this is -- you know, that that is not a moral problem. but i think we ought to talk about it. were doing this in countries with which were not at war. international law, there are questions about that. and the president says he has the authorization under the authorization to use military force against al qaeda. but i think that should be debated. >> what do you think though when you poll this question right now, it comes back very popular. >> yeah. sure. >> for the critic...

But war never goes as planned, not even war conducted by repeat control. gene, thanks for being with us. lets talk about this. there is a balancing act i still cant quite figure out when i think about this. one way of looking at this is saying that over the last two years because of the drone program weve had weve taken out an awful lot of bad guys out there. we have put a real dent in al qaeda because of this and have done that while paying a much lower cost in terms of casualties on our side t...

Hussein, third. and the latest is orchestrating the most comprehensive unilateral, multilateral sanctions against iran. we have had covert war, intelligence war, economic war, political war. however, americans also have their own grievances from hostage taking after the revolution. 52 americans for 440 days. and undermining the u.s. interests in the region and a lot of other issues which i have discussed in my book. i believe the two countries, they have to recognize the grievances. they should ...

Going to continue to rely on and, you know, anything that sounds like an obama doctrine in the second term is a hagel, kerry, biden doctrine. >> michael, continuing the mafia movie theme we have going in this block, i think of "godfather 3," just when i thought i was out i get pulled back in. were pulled in vietnam. that was the boogieman for decades. they didnt have the vietnam sort of memories hanging over its shoulder and invading the psyche and challenging the thought process and now when we...

Instead of gloating over the killing of bin laden a year ago, this is exactly where he should be and doing what hes doing. responding to the concern about this war, i wouldnt be surprised if he doesnt accelerate a troop withdrawal. but its not going to happen as long as he can responsibly withdraw troops. so youre not going to hear much we are always left in a dont on the. heres an example, i suppose, of the charnd in chaef, theyll fuss over who should get. the commander in chief has had posts h...

Itself," we have advantages that comes with all sorts of risks for all of us in the future, which is authors point. big news today. the president in afghanistan. live speech tonight. 7:30 eastern time, prime time coverage this evening and chris matthews with you right now. obama is the front. lets play "hardball." good evening. leading off tonight, the president in afghanistan. the news broke just before 3:00 eastern time. president obama had landed in afghanistan to sign an agreement on win...

We did not choose this war. this war came to us on 9/11. and there are a whole bunch of folks here, i bet, who signed up after 9/11. we dont go looking for a fight, but when we see our homeland violated, when we see our fellow citizen killed, then we understand what we have to do. and because of the sacrifices now of a decade and a new greatest generation, not only were we able to block the taliban momentum, not only were we able on bribe al-qaeda out of afghanistan, but slowly and