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Surface and mcconnell was right saying that the withdrawal of the troops, the draw down was negotiated by the public administration. in response to iraqi demandses, not as a concession to the american left the he made the decisions on what he thought were the american national interests. and the surge was something that obama opposed. that is the only reason we are now in a position to drawdown. >> what is disturbing is in the speech he spoke of ending the war four times, and did not use the wor...

Security, military and police. that is a very heavy lift but that is the deadline that he set today and now the question is how he and general petraeus work out the milestones that will lead step by step to that takes place. one other quick point, chuck and savannah, for this to happen by july of 2011, to begin to be a draw down, they can start drawing down in the provinces with less fighting and that is for the sort of appearance, the optics of a draw down and doesnt get to the core issue of ho...

Nobody has ever asked that. this is our livelihood, this is the place that we live, its our home and we think its a very special place and part of america, so were going to keep going, one step at a time. vice president joe biden had a cautious response to questions today about the planned draw-down of u.s. troops in afghanistan next july. he previously predicted a lot of people moving out. those were his words by then. but says, thats not really a deadline. >> what i was talking about was, yo...

>> that is a cool event. one of the things we heard from vice president biden he didnt want to meddle in the affairs over there but clearly a big part of is this to give a push to iraqis to get this government on track, right? >> right. i mean, sort of an irony saying that the united states government doesnt want to meddle in iraqi affairs. the vice president is there under heavy security meeting with all of the top officials there. absolutely. trying to encourage them to put aside their differe...

>> mika is angry and i understand your anger. >> wait a minute. >> as willie said, you invested a lot in this president. >> attack on the president is an attack on mika brzezinski. they are one and the same. >> exactly. >> tina mentioned it a moment ago. david petraeus, the general yesterday at a hearing for the armed services committeee fainteding in the middle of testimony. thats our man! >> our american hero. >> thats our man. >> stop this. >> dont do that! >> the 57-year-old was talking to s...

Arrangements that we have, responsible draw-down that is taking place. the iraqi security forces have continued to improve. we will continue that training role with them through 2011. well continue to do counter terrorism operations with them. but we are pretty much on schedule. >> greta: we are on track to do our draw-down and leave. there continues to be violence there. you hear terrible stories about being people blown up by suicide bombers. >> sure, and it is clear it is al-qaeda. al-qaeda t...

Arrangements that we have, responsible draw-down that is taking place. the iraqi security forces have continued to improve. we will continue that training role with them through 2011. well continue to do counter terrorism operations with them. but we are pretty much on schedule. >> greta: we are on track to do our draw-down and leave. there continues to be violence there. you hear terrible stories about being people blown up by suicide bombers. >> sure, and it is clear it is al-qaeda. al-qaeda t...

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