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Home for 13 years. by then it was the late 1950s. when the soviet union collapsed chechens tried to get their independence from russia. their first war for independence started in 1994. it ended two years later in a truce. three years after that truce chechen fighters started up again. the second war was horrific marked by the russians almost totally destroying their capital city. the attack on the moscow theater where they took 700 hostages. the russians gassed theater.

Not going to stay there a second war. >> theyre leaving anyway. >> anyway. theyre looking for any -- >> thats absolutely right. i think that the president is, look, the surge and the presidents surge, i talk a lot with national security council people at the time. they need to give a gut fourchlg the taliban, to try to reshape the environment there, and to try to maneuver the various players in the region towards negotiated outcome because there was no military outcome. that seems not to have go...

Years stabilization come back in the financial community. housing is starting to pick up. consumer confidence is rising. the president saved the auto industry. i also saw the president get us out of one war, start to get us out of a second war. and the actions he has taken with respect to protecting us from terrorism have been very, very solid. i think we ought to keep on the track that we are on. >> joy, if team obama had written a script for colin powell for an ad, it couldnt be better than th...

Heres colin powell on cbs. >> lu endorse president obama? >> yes. when he took over, we were in one of the worst recessions we have seen in recent timesish close to a depression. the fiscal system was collapsing. wall street was in chaos. and we were in very difficult straits. and i saw over the next several years stabilization come back in the financial community. housing is starting to pick up. consumer confidence is rising. the president saved the auto industry. i also saw the president get u...

You like the war in iraq, romney is your guy. >> it just seems -- without being in any way comical about, because its nothing to laugh about, people die in wars, theres always a war that the neocons are looking forward to. theyre always pushing -- they never settle down and say lets take time out for a decade without a war, and now its iran. we all know that neither party can go to war, but the way they go to war, what conditions they set and how they deal with the consequences are really critic...

Obama this mornings, he cited mitt romneys foreign policy as a major concern. this monday we saw romney present himself as a moderate emphasizing peace and diplomacy. for the past year and a half, however, romney has courted the far rights and the neocons of his party with his hawkish rhetoric. secretary powell pointed out the obvious, its not clear who we would get if romney was elected. powell praised president obamas handling of foreign policy over the last four years. lets listen. >> i also ...

Secretary powell, when he looks back at the iraq war and his role in justifying it before the united nations, what do you think hes thinking right now? >> well, powell and i have seen these people before, the john boltons, the donald rumsfeld and dick cheney, and seen them with an inexperienced president, and we have seen what they can do, lead the nation to a war that was unnecessary, as richard hoss characterized it. im very worried as i think powell was saying, and ill say it even more candid...

Night in that debate, the third one on foreign policy, and i heard strange words coming out of his mouth. hes a business guy, obviously hes a successful businessman, made a quarter billion dollars. he doesnt have any interest in the world, never shown any interest in the world beyond that. my question, where did he get that thing about how were going to charge ahmadinejad, the president of iran, with genocide for the words hes spoken, not what hes done, but the words hes spoken about israel? tha...

Welcome back to "hardball." when former secretary of state colin powell endorsed president obama this mornings, he cited mitt romneys foreign policy as a major concern. this monday we saw romney present himself as a moderate emphasizing peace and diplomacy. for the past year and a half, however, romney has courted the far rights and the neocons of his party with his hawkish rhetoric. secretary powell pointed out the obvious, its not clear who we would get if romney was elected. powell praised pr...

As thoroughly as he should have. >> are you concerned about the people that are advising governor romney? >> i think theres some very, very strong neoconservative views that are presented by the governor that i have some trouble with. >> colonel wilkerson, lets talk about that. secretary powell, when he looks back at the iraq war and his role in justifying it before the united nations, what do you think hes thinking right now? >> well, powell and i have seen these people before, the john bolton,...