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Infringing upon the rights of the minorities, and those literally are fill in the blanks, it doesnt matter which the minority is today? it might be gay parents, and tomorrow it might be government is not god members. >> apparently that doesnt matter. apparently for all the historical references and illusions that the tea party and that the social right in general likes to make, theyre not aware that the founders specifically wanted separation of powers and thats why we have a bill of rights. it ...

What better way to destroy america from the inside than divide her with the youth. the nea now is recommending the book, rules for radicals. the first line from the prologue, may i give them to you. the revolutionary force today has two targets. the moral as well as the material. wow, the 60s is starting to make sense to me! destroy the morals and destroy everything material. the young protagonists are one moment reminiscent of the idealistic early christians. yet they are also urged violence an...

Put pen to paper and then to relive some of these battles and some of the things you experienced there. >> yeah it was. my wife would know when id get to a difficult scene. id be thrashing around in the bed but shed be like you must have -- im curious, one of the things you write about in the book is how bitterly divided this country was as evidenced by your first answer to my question about just the hatred and some of the yelling that was going on and how bitterly divided it was. does it make y...

Thats been eroded. theres plenty of indicators that suggest that theyre tired of running every night. theyre tired of worrying about every time they pop up are they going to be killed or get rolled up. so there are enough indicators to tell me that this is very do-able. im a very realistic optimist. weve been here nine years now, but the u.s. has been focused on this area in kandahar in a big way in the last year and a half. so i have no illusions about what it will look like a year from now, bu...

That suggest that theyre tired of running every night. theyre tired of worrying about every time they pop up are they going to be killed or get rolled up. so there are enough indicators to tell me that this is very do-able. im a very realistic optimist. weve been here nine years now, but the u.s. has been focused on this area in kandahar in a big way in the last year and a half. so i have no illusions about what it will look like a year from now, but i see the possibilities. >> the people needed...

Ineffective. >> gregg: ambassador, let me turn to another subject, iran. congress as you know passing new sancti sanctions, the president will soon sign the bill and targets foreign companies that sell gasoline to iran and companies that help develop its energy sector and it targets financial institutions connected to the revolutionary guard. do you think these sanctions will do anything at all to change irans behavior, in developing nuclear weapons? >> i think theyll have next to no impact on t...

And the taliban. >> well, it is a huge cost, with 100,000 troops in place within a few weeks, and you know this is costing billions and billions of dollars. it is worth it? >> well, i think that you have to look at the alternative, and what that is. what we have got to do really is that we have to really come the grips with al qaeda. they are mostly in pakistan apparently the leadership, but you cant deal with them in pakistan without working afghanistan. so, it is an integrated theatre, and i t...

Volunteer force, we know they said ill raise my hand and do this. and mothers, fathers, brother, sisters, sons and daughterses. theyre the best team weve ever fielded. so this is about them. their ranks could increase before they decrease. its a heck of a place to wage war especially if its not your environment. and general petraeus goes in knowing the grounds. knowing the individual commanders, knowing the units there, knowing the challenge. and hes not -- he is a realist. he has indicated to i...

Round, believing his heart and his lungs on the pitch, in other words, he was going to work pretty hard. another one of the big forwards the u.s. has said that the team were under no illusions of just how important that game is. >> ian williams, thanks so much. up next -- the agony of victory for the city of los angeles, and heartbreak for a man who is just trying to make a living. later -- its coffee thats supposed to spice up your love life but dont even think of taking a sip until you hea...

She realized what were dealing with here and who were dealing with. its not good stuff. they will leave the illusions in place until the "e" word. emergency arrives. 20% unemployment. dollar collapsing, greece and all of europe on fire and in chaos. yeah, what happens when the emergency arrives? germany is bailing them out now, and now the imf is saying to greece what they can and cannot do. what is their freedom? they being told who they can hire and fire. they are looking over the whole budget...