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Imposing. they will probably not like that. but at this point, the enemy of my enemy is my friend and people in the sunni areas that is their own government. >> can they stand gains by the ruthless ground force. what happens when you get to baghdad? >> i think they can. one of the interesting things that occurred, eric the grand a yatollla h called on the iraqi people to take up arms and fight for the country. iraq is two-thirds shia. and if the grand a yatol authority la h gets them to take up ...

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This as someone who served in the military, you always have to have a contingency plan. so the fact that for 75 people, 75,000 israeli reservists were authorized to be recruited by the idf. it doesnt mean that the idf is going to use them tomorrow. regarding your first question, the israeli cabinet, the commander-in-chief, gave the israeli defense forces a clear mandate, to remove the threat that we view to be of strategic nature. to remove the threat of rockets and missiles coming into israel f...

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January 2013. defense secretary leon panetta also criticized congress but reiterated his concern about the military. "if congress fails to act over the next year, the department of defense will pay devastating, automatic across teffs board cut that will tear a seam in the nation defense." the top republican on the senate armed services committee is worried, too. >> military chiefs, said the cuts would be totally devastating. we live in a dangerous world. the president again disregarded the stron...

January 2013. defense secretary leon panetta also criticized congress but reiterated his concern about the military. "if congress fails to act over the next year, the department of defense will pay devastating, automatic across teffs board cut that will tear a seam in the nation defense." the top republican on the senate armed services committee is worried, too. >> military chiefs, said the cuts would be totally devastating. we live in a dangerous world. the president again disregarded the stron...

>> erskine bowles, cochair of the presidents commission sounded pessimistic about the chance for success. >> if you havent thrown up yet, you are getting ready to. >> if the super committee fails, $600 billion would be cut from defense. leon panetta warne warned in ths letter to senator john mccain, "rough estimates suggest after ten years of these cuts we would have the smallest ground force since 1940, the smallest number of ships since 1915, and the smallest air force in the history." yet, th...

At least one killed and three others injured when a russian rocket hit the see of kramatorsk. and also rocked the southern city of kyiv. this agency the state emergency service of ukraine yesterday said that russians heavily bombarded the city of luhansk, in the donbas region, destroying several buildings in a gas pipeline. according to a u.s. official, russia has added more combat units in eastern ukraine in the past 24 hours. to this point, largely stepped up the shelling ground force advances...

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President tomorrow night will be dramatically clearer than he has been up to now. i hope the president will say, first of all, he is consulting the u.s. congress not just the arab league and the united nations. i hope he will say second that it is clear that the qaddafi dictatorship has to leave and we are prepared to do whatever it takes to make sure that the qaddafi leadership leaves. >> chris: when you say whatever is takes, should we strike at qaddafi? >> yes, once you engaged air power use ...