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To go operational is a real problem. bill: all right. so you fill in libya on the map now. you could make an argument that tunisia should be on this map. >> you could. bill: and egypt as well. >> yeah. bill: and sudan. >> yeah. bill: and the list continues to grow. >> yeah. bill: what is your thinking as to why? you used to work in the white house. why do you drop the line, al qaeda is on the run when youve been using it for two years? >> because they have been caught red-handed bill. look, the ...

>> you did a hell of a job. general, did we win? >> we accomplished our objectives early on. i think the iraqi people have a long way to go. i think our president said it best when he said the country deserves a state where it is stable and self reliant. we have been working toward each of the objectives that made tremendous progress but they are not there yet. they are going to have to keep working at it in order to achieve all of the objectives. >> i dont know how you felt but the fact that yo...

>> you did a hell of a job. general, did we win? >> we accomplished our objectives early on. i think the iraqi people have a long way to go. i think our president said it best when he said the country deserves a state where it is stable and self reliant. we have been working toward each of the objectives that made tremendous progress but they are not there yet. they are going to have to keep working at it in order to achieve all of the objectives. >> i dont know how you felt but the fact that yo...

Country withdrew through. >> you did a hell of a job. general, did we win? >> we accomplished our objectives early on. i think the iraqi people have a long way to go. i think our president said it best when he said the country deserves a state where it is stable and self reliant. we have been working toward each of the objectives that made tremendous progress but they are not there yet. they are going to have to keep working at it in order to achieve all of the objectives. >> i dont know how you...

>> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. breaking tonight, were awaiting a crucial house vote aimed at avoiding a government shutdown with less than 30 hours to go before the deadline. al key conservative telling me just a little while ago that house republican leaders still dont have enough votes to pass a short-term spending bill. lets go right to our congressional correspondent, phil mattingly, hes up on capitol hill, where the threat of a government shutdown is urgent, very, very real. phi...