foreign policy. the situation in iraq clearly fueling some of that. why would americans blame barack obama for the mess. wasn t it the mush cheney team that got us into this mess? i pressed former vice president, dick cheney on that. in your op ed, you write, rarely has a u.s. president been so long about so much at the expense of so many. time and time again, history has proven you got it wrong in iraq. you said hussein had weps of mass destruction, that the iraq is your genesee was in the last throws and you said after our intervention, extremists would have to rethink their strategy of jihad. now, with almost $1 trillion & 4500 american lives lost there, what do you say to those who say, you were so wrong about so much at the expense of so many? no. i fundamentally disagree. you have to go back and look at the track record. we inherited a sways where there was no doubt in anybody s mind about the extent of sadam s involvement with the weapons of mass destruction. we
assess who the principle enemy is to american interest. right now, it is iran. i don t see any up-side to aiding the maliki government, which is largely responsible in iraqi terms for the effective partition of the country that s underway. aiding al maliki would objectively strengthen iran, which i don t see. let me ask you about this. people are looking at the past ten years to figure out how we got here and whether that is reflected in these poll numbers for president obama, which are on a downward spiral and whether he can be fairly tarred with what s happening in iraq muchless significantly. it seems like when people go to talk about president obama, they talk about the fact that we didn t leave some troops there to sustain the blood and pressure that was sacrificed, rightly or wrongly, depending on your point of view by our american troops on the ground there. megan, i think the same
is to american interest. right now, it is iran. i don t see any up-side to aiding the maliki government, which is largely responsible in iraqi terms for the effective partition of the country that s underway. aiding al maliki would objectively strengthen iran, which i don t see. let me ask you about this. people are looking at the past ten years to figure out how we got here and whether that is reflected in these poll numbers for president obama, which are on a downward spiral and whether he can be fairly tarred with what s happening in iraq muchless significantly. it seems like when people go to talk about president obama, they talk about the fact that we didn t leave some troops there to sustain the blood and pressure that was sacrificed, rightly or wrongly, depending on your point of view by our american troops on the ground there. megan, i think the same