president s on the president s plan for iraq, senior advisor to the coalition in iraq during the george w. bush administration, dan. 300 advisors. does that seem like a good plan to you? i think what the president said yesterday, he did lay out to his credit, the strategic interest we have in iraq, that basically iraq and also syria up in a flames in a critically important part of the region, terrible strategic play for the united states. however, the solution that he laid out struck me as woefully inadequate. we can t do much to help them beat back this insurgency with just up to, quote, up to 300 military advisors. so look, the good news is he laid out the strategic interest and opened the door for more military engagement. but what he committed so far, no commitment from the joint operations command, special force, combination of air forces
it will happen again and again to people in politics. it has nothing to do with the stakes. i wonder what your career ending moment might be. it s a delicious buffet. i won t tell anybody. it reminded me of what you are saying about the investigation. yesterday, i was talking to somebody from joint operations command. he said the problem was with the fbi, they investigated. as soon as say thaw the e-mails and what they said about paula they should have dropped the whole thing. i think they should double down and do a full court press on this. there should be a heart break division at the fbi investigating the crimes. i think things will be better there. you think that? yeah. sure. here is the question. now, there s private things. i don t want to minimize this. the question is, as a matter of substance and policy, then the question is, should what we learned about general petraeus
yes, we are spending $2 billion a week in afghanistan, spend more. it s going to make us officer. it s not. people know it instinctively and people are smart about it. it s never helped our security. i don t think obama or a magician or anybody could convince us of that. you have seen the opinion polls. it s a radical continued shift including independents and republicans. it s a myth president obama is a dove. he uses his force, joint operations command. the guys that killed osama bin laden, he is using them in yemen and somalia. he s hitting harder according to to special opes guys. the problem is we are using our elite soldiers to kill them and innocent civilians. we are giving them a reason to want to fight us. we need to rethink this strategy. on the issue you are talking about, dick cheney and those
people are smart about it. it s never helped our security. i don t think obama or a magician or anybody could convince us of that. you have seen the opinion polls. it s a radical continued shift including independents and republicans. it s a myth president obama is a dove. he uses his force, joint operations command. the guys that killed osama bin laden, he is using them in yemen and somalia. he s hitting harder according to to special opes guys. the problem is we are using our elite soldiers to kill them and innocent civilians. we are giving them a reason to want to fight us. we need to rethink this strategy. on the issue you are talking about, dick cheney and those guys have ph.d.s. they took us into iraq and allocated the best forces we have to a war that was based on
find? an intelligence windfall. five computers and ten hard drives and then more than 100 storage devices that include dvds, discs and hard drives, and thumb drives as you say. before i let you go, i want to talk about another photograph which is circulating and getting all kinds of attention. take a look. this is the photo from the white house situation room sunday fight when this whole 40-minute raid unfolded in pakistan and obviously a lot of people can pick out a number of these high, high ranking officials within the administration, et cetera, but jess, some of the faces we don t recognize, and you are plugged in, so walk me through some of the folks we may not recognize, but obviously, have very important to be in the situation room. well, i had to do some research, too, because they were there for history, too. there is vice president biden and of course the president, and next to him is the uniformed man is brigadier general marshall webb from the joint operations command