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And im all for nation building, lets start with one called the united states. but what do we think that when we look at the bush doctrine, it adhered to the neo-conservative agenda, launch war, spread democracy to combat terrorism. unlaterally to pursue u.s. interests. when you enter the context of the bush doctrine, you see that chuck hagel who first supported the iraq mission, and then turned around in good conscience and said no, he made this statement in his book. i made myself a promise tha...

Credit. and when you look at the fact that the numbers behind the afghanistan war is shocking, the cost of the war, $553.7 billion, dead, over 2,000, wounded, 17,000, 674, and still 66,000 troops there today. to start getting out of this early makes financial sense and it saves american lives. and as the congressman just said if we went in because of al-qaeda and osama bin laden, osama bin laden is no longer among the living. >> yes, that whole argument around costs was the argument that candida...

Congressman, that were looking at the emergence of the obama doctrine, the undoing of the bush doctrine? >> we are, reverend. and it is an historic day. and you know, rev, less than 1% of americans that served in iraq or afghanistan, most americans dont have skin in the game. and we all love the troops. but most americans dont know in the past year in afghanistan there have been 60 of our troops who have been killed on green on blue violence, murdered, basically, by afghan security forces. now i...

Promise. this is chuck hagel in his book talking about his experiences in vietnam that led him to coming out in opposition as a republican, to the iraq war. dont you think that a lot of this opposition to hagel by some of the far right is that theyre still angry at him that he came out against the iraqi war after it had started. and he had formerly supported it? >> i think there is certainly some truth to that. but what is interesting about that, i think in many ways, hagels position, backing th...

Eight-year mess that was george w. bushs foreign policy. at the white house, he met with the president of afghanistan and made a big announcement. >> we achieved our central goal, which is, or have come very close to achieving our central goal, which is to decapacitate al-qaeda, to make sure they cant attack us again. by next year, 2014, the transition will be complete. afghans will have full responsibility for their security, and this war will come to a responsible end. >> yes, a reduced role f...

Day for the troops. american troops, but also for our country. because today is very significant. the fact that the president has been very clear, were not accelerating the fact that were bringing our troops home. thank goodness, we are shifting from a counter-insurgent doctrine to a counter terrorist doctrine. they did their job, they took out osama bin laden, gave afghanistan a chance to stand up for their people. the longest war in american history, about ten years old. it is time to bring th...

Where you list the cost in blood and treasure. and here is the president who is looking at having to shrink the defense budget, which is about $600 billion a year. in looking at his insulation of hagel, they are going to have to preside over a foreign policy that is much different than what weve seen over these last decades. you mentioned there would be grooipi -- there is a lot of -- disagreement even among republicans about the cost of war, about whether or not that is where americans should b...