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In the valley of eastern afghanistan in 2007, the soldiers of chosen company suffered serious casualties defending isolated outposts. >> they were sitting ducks. >> reporter: they were nearing the end of their 15-month deployment when intelligence reports indicated a huge enemy force was massing. army commanders decided to close the increasingly perilous combat post and build a new base in a village called wunot. >> it was a terrible spot. everyone knew it was a terrible spot to put a base. >> h...

Just like an enemy force invading the gulf and taking over our shoreline. we need to receipt it like a war as opposed to an environmental disaster. >> reporter: you are saying have bp responsible for the cleanup is a problem? >> its like getting mugged and have the burglar determine the compensation. >> reporter: what is the first thing would you do immediately, within an hour to change the cleanup? >> i would go on the offense. i would go on the attack. weve been playing defense, waiting for th...

Because you have said we need to declare world war iii on this. >> absolutely. we need to act like its world war iii. nothing was left on the table with the other world wars. all branches of the military should be on the table available for admiral allen. >> reporter: youre treating this like it is a battle. >> absolutely. and for the people of the gulf, this is their life. and it would be just like an enemy force invading the gulf or taking over our shoreline. weve got to treat this like a war ...

Alan. find this oil and kill it. >> youre treating this like it is a battle? >> absolutely. and to -- for the people of the gulf, this is their life. its just like an enemy force invading the gulf, taking over our shore line. we have to treat this like a war if we want to get it fixed. >> youre saying theres an inherent problem with bp being responsible for the cleanup? >> absolutely. its like getting mugged and having the burglar determine what your compensation is. the government needs to dete...

Retired army man who led the response in hurricane katrina, were talking about lieutenant russell honorare. >> we came from the national world war ii museum in new orleans today. because you said we need to declare world war ii when it comes to this oil disaster? >> absolutely. we need to act like its world war iii. when we did the world wars, everything was mobilized, all branchs of the military should be there working for admiral alan. find this oil and kill it. >> youre treating this like it ...

>> there is a way to do that. >> larry: how? >> it really would get a big challenge in court. if you were, for example, in the second world war, if you were an american citizen and joined the nazi army, we could take your citizenship away from you. if you joined an enemy force thats at war with the united states, your citizenship can be taken away from you. the question is, with the courts consider this that kind of war? we dont know yet exactly what kind of connection he had with al qaeda or wi...

Enemy. u.s. marines and afghan forces came under attack late thursday afternoon. day six of operation moshtarak proved that the fight for marjah rages on, and there seems to be no end in near sight. >> i guess it will take us another 25 to 30 days to be entirely sure that we have secured that which needs to be secured. >> reporter: unit 16s alpha company used state-of-the-art technology against the ak 47s coming from nearby fields and mud compounds. >> i cannot discern the size of the enemy forc...

Destruction? >> given the announcements of certain groups and the messages that have been sent with videotapes, et cetera, announcing that intent, the answer would be based on that yes. >> under the law of armed conflict, and this is where i may differ a bit with my colleagues, it is an international concept, the law of armed conflict. under the law of armed conflict, do you agree with the following statement -- that if a person is detained who is properly identified through accepted legal proce...

Lets get too it. good monday afternoon to you from the fox news deck. your constitutional rights may not apply, depending on what kind of an american you are. thats the conclusion of our governments secret legal justification for the government killing american citizens with drones. after a long fight pitting the white house against lawmakers and reporters for that matter, an appeals court released the 30-page memo. parts of it, anyway. it lays out the case for droning on war al-aulaqi back in...

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