much of your and his time. to a reasonable observer it would appear as a policy failure. not being permit by the iraqi government to keep personnel here as a result we don t have eyes on. we didn t have eyes in there. that s correct. we didn t. iraqis didn t have the sense of what was happening. they did. these are their people. i reminded secretary kerry he and president obama seen two other cities fall back in january. what did you do about it to prevent mosul from falling. in the end the iraqis are responsible for their defense and nobody expected wholesale desertion and wholesale betrayal in a sense by some leaders who literally either signed up with the guys who came in or walked away from their post and put on their civilian clothes. nobody expected that. i asked about the latest new
don t. what if god forbid there was another attack on united states. how would they handle it this time? would we just be throwing darts at each other? you know what s interesting, carol. maria is right. iraqis didn t want us to remain in iraq any longer. the more interesting question is about the american people. war is inherently a political question. there s as question of whether or not our leaders like president obama should guide us and influence us toward decisions that his moral compass says is right or respond to the public s will at that time. the point is war is inherently political. senator mccain mentioned residual forces in germany and japan. i don t know if the american people were ready to have a residual force in that region to maintain that. that s a political question that, you know, you say we should come together. that s the one that has to be debated. the answer to that question i bet you does not break clearly on r & d and red and blue and left and right.
though, who want his job. plus, the tea party movement dealing with new divisions while stirring up red hot anger among liberals in congress. why some democrats see the tea party as their worst enemies. and a state of alert as the nation prepares to mark the tenth anniversary of 9/11. we re digging for information on the fbi s latest concerns and whether americans should be worried. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we now know that president obama wants to deliver his big speech on jobs next wednesday night before a joint session of the house and senate. with millions of americans out of work, this address will be a make-or-break moment for the president and for his campaign to keep his job for another four years. let s bring in our chief white house correspondent, jessica yellin. jessica, this speech, though, may not happen wednesday night as the white house wants. what s going on? reporter: that s right, wolf. even before the speech, there s already
shannon: all right, so when should our troops be leaving? bring back the panel. we have casey, a.b. and charles with us tonight. we have status forces agreement that says we re leaving by the end of 2011. that is what the president said as well. the status forces agreement was signed at the end of the bam administration and says two things. one, when you get out of the cities. we did that. iraqis didn t think we d ever get out of the cities but we did. in june of 2009. and now the second date stimulates by the end of 2011 we are out of there. a number of people including iraqis said don t take the training wheels off yet, we re not going to be ready until 2020. yet, general odierno who is the architect of this said one guy who has had a history of speaking truth to power, including favoring the surge when obama and clinton didn t favor it, he said they are going to be ready. we are on schedule. we should be ready to be fully withdrawn by 2011. the thing i find amusing though about
shannon: all right, so when should our troops be leaving? bring back the panel. we have casey, a.b. and charles with us tonight. we have status forces agreement that says we re leaving by the end of 2011. that is what the president said as well. the status forces agreement was signed at the end of the bam administration and says two things. one, when you get out of the cities. we did that. iraqis didn t think we d ever get out of the cities but we did. in june of 2009. and now the second date stimulates by the end of 2011 we are out of there. a number of people including iraqis said don t take the training wheels off yet, we re not going to be ready until 2020. yet, general odierno who is the architect of this said one guy who has had a history of speaking truth to power, including favoring the surge when obama and clinton didn t favor it, he said they are going to be ready. we are on schedule. we should be ready to be fully withdrawn by 2011. the thing i find amusing though about