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Things that annoy the tea party. >> you have to. matter of a definition of your job. >> some republicans have basically sold tea party conservatives this line just by saying no, no, no, we can force a democratic senate and democratic president to impose whatever policy agenda we want. that doesnt work. if youre a majority leader, part of your job is finding a way to get a debt ceiling increase through the republican house. and so if you become majority leader, you end up getting branded as a sel...

2003 and now we are living with the consequences of that action. what will happen probably is, in effect, a de facto partialing of iraq in shiite sections and sunni sections and on the margins of turkey we will watch carefully what the kurds do. the best we can hope for. they will not, if, at the same time, our negotiations with iran fail and here in degree of compromises needed both by the iranians and by us and we should try to settle the problem for the time being if we can. >> richard haass,...

Military advisors set to begin their work in iraq soon, the question is what exactly will they be doing? joining me retired lieutenant colonel rick francona served as a u.s. intelligence officer during the persian gulf war and served in northern iraq with the cia. thank you for being with us. youve been in the situation. help me understand whats going on here. when these military personnel, these special forces leave the u.s. embassy, they go to the front lines, they show up and what happens? yo...

Divisions of the iraqi army melting away and defecting, obviously, the iraqi army doesnt work properly so it needs help. but the u.s. isnt the only person doing this, isnt the only one doing this right now. iran is already here doing the exact same thing. and the head all day is one of$ox thosed drivers ed cars where you have two steering wheels. the u.s. is going to have 300 of hands on the st wheel and iran has its own hands on the steering wheel. right now, our interests align. both the unite...

And having more u.s. military activity in iraq is because we are so dependent upon oil and we need stable and hopefully lower oil prices. thats an observation that i think might ring upsetting with a lot of americans, the idea that we would go to war for cheaper gasoline. >> and we should not go to war for cheaper gasoline. but our economy is driven by that. and thats why providing stability in that part of the world is important to us. we never went into iraq on the very first day with the idea...

Parts to this the immediate emergency defense and then a political requirement to set the stage and the conditions in the sunni areas and provinces that allow you to conduct a counter offensive thats acceptable up there that leads toward a greater political solution. >> lastly, general zini, what lessons have we learned especially people like you who helped wage the war in iraq, what lessons have we learned that so that we dont repeat mistakes we made in iraq already? what does president obama n...

>> its excellent. >> nicolle, do you watch this? >> i dont. i dont like dragons. >> dragons and gnomes. this is what im going to do on a sunday night. >> "game of thrones." >> is it like "lord of the rings?" >> theyre fighting for power, only three dragons. >> it just doesnt work. im sorry. i dont like it. >> i havent even matched "mad men" this season. i heard it was bad? >> you should be watching "mad men." >> nicolle? >> it starts very slow and very bad, but ends well. >> does it really? >> d...

States really required the united states as sort of a central part of its dna, do you agree with that? >> i do, actually. thats the evidence. you know, ryan crocker, ambassador for several years. american ambassador said to me, that the irony is, that we built ourselves into the hard drive, and i think thats right. youve basically got these three groups, the shiites, the sunnis and the kurds, theyve never really learned how to live with each other. they dont trust each other. the united states, ...

United states as sort of an essential part of its dna. do you agree with that? >> i do, actually. thats the evidence. ryan crocker, whos ambassador there for several years, american ambassador there, said to me, you know, the irony is that we built ourselves into the hard drive. and i think thats right. youve basically got these three groups, the shiites, the sunnis and the kurds. theyve never really learned how to live with each other. they dont trust each other. the united states -- you know, ...

Their view, having been involved in so many wars in the area, the view from israel has been, it is impossible to intervene in a way that advances our interests, and there is a likelihood that we will make this worse. and we see the face of evil, talking about syria gassing innocents, but where he have tried to intervene, and found it doesnt work, its too complex, and its not our fight. >> well, you pointed out, theres a good intent there. we want to do the humanitarian thing, but the flip side, ...