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Occurred recently, of course, a big bombing, hundreds of civilians were killed when a u.s. bomb hit mosul, iraq, one of the things john dickerson wanted to know are we going to see more of this. is the u.s. military going to kill more civilians? here with that exchange. watch. >> 100 civilians were killed after a u.s. bomb hit a building in mosul in iraq. is this the result of this tempo? is this the thing americans need to get used to as a natural by product of this strategy? >> the american pe...

>> you never know, do you? you never know. >> thats all youre going to say. >> you know i dont talk about the military. im not like obama where they talk about in four months well hit mosul and in the meantime they get ready. mosul was supposed to last for a week and now theyve been fighting it for many months. so many more people died. i dont want to talk about it. >> is his unpredictability actually a virtue, general? >> well, unpredictability is a virtue at the tactical level, so you dont wan...

>> you reference president trump. president trump was hammered in certain quarters this week for inconsistencies. i want to know from general hayden, if consistency, when it comes to foreign affairs and national security, is overrated as a virtue? i want to show you a short clip that he appeared with maria bartiromo on fox business and then ill ask that question. play it. >> what are we doing right now in terms of north korea? >> you never know, do you? you never know. >> thats all youre going t...

>> you redirected navy ships to go to the korean peninsula what are we doing right now in terms of north korea?o >> you never know, do you? i dont talk about the military, im not like obama with a talk about it in four months, were going to hit mosul in the meantime they get ready and you never say it -- youre still fighting most of commit was supposed to last for a week ands now theyve been fighting it for many months. i dont want to talk about it. we are sending an armada, very powerful. we ha...

Fied sanctuary to joe are grow in afghanistan. >> what this map is depicting is what isis has been able to achieve. in black it is what they actually control physically on the ground in dark red is what they are attempting to control and then in lighter red is their support zone. >> this is a hell of a lot of territory. >> because of the success they have achieved they have grown into a terrorist army. >> we are not talking about the terrorist organization this is a terrorist army. >> that is wh...

And iraq and sunni insurgents. >> absolutely. >> here in baghdad you are talking about most of the city. >> most of the city was definitely controlled the al qaeda, sunni insurgents and the city was just hell. >> take us to the map on the right. >> the surge began in january and february of 2007 and quite remarkably by the end of 2007 we began to achieve some tangible success. by 2008 we had driven al qaeda out of all of the regions you see on the map to the left because they are now gone from b...

They have been shaping mosul for two years by conducting terrorist attacks. this is vehicle born ied, suicide bombers, blowing up government facilities, police stations, undermining peoples confidence in the military and in the police. last summer in 2013 they began an assassination campaign of key individuals. they waited until that target they believed lost its resolve and will and then they launched this conventional military operation to cease mosul. >> is isis in syria and iraq a threat, is...

Fighters on the iraq front and 6,000 fighters on the syrian front. >> about 10,000. >> the trouble, take lirly on the iraq front they are not the only once on the offensive right now. >> when isis takes over a city, mosul, what do they establish there? what is life like under isis? >> what isis initially did was establish a set of rules for social behavior that included some very severe restrictions particularly upon women and upon praying five times a day, very strict sharia law that one would ...

Clip. >> you redirected navy ships to go to the korean peninsula what are we doing right now in terms of north korea? >> you never know, do you? i dont talk about the military, im not like obama with a talk about it in four months, were going to hit mosul in the meantime they get ready and you never say it -- youre still fighting most of commit was supposed to last for a week and now theyve been fighting it for many months. i dont want to talk about it. we are sending an armada, very powerful. w...

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