seems to me 4500 americans have died. seems to me 100,000 iraqis have died. it is time for us to pull out. the question is and this is what we are hearing this morning is what comes next. i am not sure thattal m al-malid iranians are such great friends. obviously you have a shiite dominated south and there s interference there but there s complexity beginning with saudi arabia s iran and tins fascination. i think that somehow saying directly there is a link between iran going to dominate iraq is mistaken. let s turn to libya. not only the ouster of the regime but qaddafi. does the leading from behind look smarter? it looks better today than it did. my own view is, i think there s
a young man who claims he killed qaddafi. he s holding a bloody shirt and a gold ring he says he took off the hand. he says i shot him twice in the head and chest. libyans continued to line up this weekend treating his body like a trophy. now they appear to have stopped the transitional national council has stopped the viewing and cut off the lines of people who wanted to see the body. but there is still cell phone video much him and his son and his former security chief laid out in a market where they were being held. qaddafi s family is demanding the body and that of his son be sent to them in algeria. a spokesperson said she thought his body would be sent to his family. but that s up to the interim libyan government at this point,
assistance. there are missions that only we can to. the iraqis were in my view open minded to this. this was a failure by the obama administration to close the deal. the military commander said we needed 15 to 18,000. we have none. so that is the bottom line here. at a time when we need troops in iraq to secure the place against intervention by iran and the bad actors in the region we are going to go into 2012 with none. it was his job, the obama administration s job to end this well. they failed. chris: let s turn to libya. you were a loud critic of the obama administration decision to work within nato and as one white house official put it so unfortunately to lead from behind. the obama white house is pointing out now toppled qaddafi without the lost of a single american soldier and it cost about a billion dollars as opposed to the $805 billion in
that is what we were there for to give the iraqi people the chance to make their own decisions. we have a security presence xe with a support and training mission in iraq. we have bases in the region with other countries. that s what you do when you are dealing with independent sovereign nations that have a will and a decision of their own. secretary, let s turn if we can to libya the human rights groups are calling for an investigation if as an appearance from the videotape that qaddafi was executed it is a war crime you are coming under fire for what you said. we came, we saw, he died. question, do you regret what you said, secretary and if i may do you regret what you said and do you feel qaddafi was wronged or he got what was coming to him? let s have an investigation.
they re losing patience with assad and they were close, the europeans have interests in syria. not saying we should do the same thing, but the message to assad is, choose a comfortable exile, the qaddafi was not a good one. paul: we haha [ male announcer ] to the 5:00 a.m. scholar. the two trains and a bus rider. the i ll sleep when it s done academic. for 80 years, we ve been inspired by you. and we ve been honored to walk with you to help you get where you want to be because your moment is now. let nothing stand in your way. learn more at keller.edu. let nothing stand in your way. or creates another laptop bag or hires another employee, it s notust good for business.