president, it was interesting and perhaps even wise to know the president the sources are saying, listen, boots on the ground is not an option. they ve made that at least clear before talking about the other options. well, look, there s a few things we got to remember legally. legally there is still a war authorization that is active that congress passed that does give the president a lot of leeway to do whatever he wants in iraq frankly. at this point when it comes to military issues. this isn t a case where he necessarily needs to go to congress to make some decision on various aspects that he does. now, that doesn t mean preliminarily he may decide like he did with syria that he doesn t want to go off on this political limb alone. thgs what makes this harder, the lack of political will in the country that is going to support this. our last polling on iraq, 60% of the country said the war wasn t even worth it. people didn t believe the war is worth it, are they going to
defend the country. that perhaps give the greatest indication that this violence that is spreading across iraq is falling more and more along the sectarian lines and taking a dangerous turn between the sunni community and the shiite community on the other and that is one of the reasons that iran is very vested in this, because they are a backer of the maliki government and the shiite government in iraq for several year years. and according to latest information the insurgents are 40 miles from baghdad. do we know of any contingency plans to evacuate the u.s. embassy in the heart of baghdad and it is the largest embassy in the world? well, there is no doubt that those plans are definitely already in play or at least have been in play for some time. there is no way that a city like baghdad with all of the security r risks that it faces on the daily basis would not have a contingency plan in the works and the fact that you could see some of the al qaeda militant-linked militants in th
made in that he did not want troops in for an exand theed period of time. well, the fact is though that everybody bought into maliki, and republicans and democrats and that is shared blame there, and maliki is clearly making these mistakes that have put, brought his country to the knees in many ways, and so no doubt there, and we are having a chicken and the egg pointing conversation and those who were proponents of the iraq war believe we left too soon and those who voted against it are saying that i told you so in their form, but the matter is that we have a crisis right now, and insurgents of the islamic fundamental militants who are taking place that could be a security stake for jordan and syria and nevertheless, america is the stabilizing force in the middle east. and as we go to iraq and what is happening in that country, it
visiting with the prime minister of australia and the oval office where he indicated among other things that everything, and no options had been reruled out and everything remains on the table the right now, and one other note is that there is a continued ask from iraq for more assistance from the united states, and that presently, there is already some unmanned surveillance flights taking place over the country of iraq. one of the real challenges in this situation, tamron, is the fact that there is limited intelligence to know exactly what you are aiming at, and what targets you are going after in that country right now, and i am told by the administration officials that in recent days they have increased as they said it the sharing of the intelligence information that they have ga thered from the flights above iraq. and to your point, i want to show you before we bring in eamon mohyeldin, and we are asked what he was asking from
iraq war, they said that it was not worth it, and there is a big war weariness in this country, and of course, you could make the argument that after world war i, that the united states was weary, and going into world war ii was the right call by the united states after attacks of japan and germany declared war on the united states, but what we are facing after a decade of war in iraq and afghanistan is a public without an appetite for this, and the question becomes, if you don t have the appetite and not the political will, what is next, and what can the president do, and as peter reported, if we are not given the outlines of what he want s o do, but that is what we are waiting to hear. and with the extra bit of citing the other wars, but the extra bit of anger that comes with it, mark, when you ask both those who serve and the american public what is accomplished that cannot be answered by many, and when you see this discussion of