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To see done? last week, it seemed that the president is shooip shying wear from air strikes. >> first of all, i wish the president would stop saying what he would not do. one of the reasons were in the position wrer right now is because the president -- the status forces agreement for iraq by pulling out of our troops out, we lost much of the leverage we had. we allowed maliki to fall into this way of iran. by not saying significant action in syria, weve allowed isis to build up the space. and g...

This is an absurd argument as if president obama playing golf is caused by whats happening in iraq. he got on a -- he acted like tom cruise in top gun, declaring mission accomplished in 2003, the status of the agreement ended on 2011 meaning we could not keep forces in iraq. they didnt want us there. its not just the mainstream media. none of the media, mainstream or otherwise have been paying attention to this because the war was declared over by bush in 2003 and the status forces agreement had...

For policies on the exchanges, theyre going to pay 30%, 40% more and some people twice and three types as much as the policies they had. who is the president to decide whats good for an individual and their families? >> especially if they like what they have. and theres a great deal to be said for many of these catastrophic health care insurance policies. i have a friend out in california whos had a policy for 25 years. never once made a claim and he loved his policy. he lost his look, the presi...

Status forces agreement should have been renegotiated? after all a lot of american blood was spilled there. >> i think it was a mistake. i think we should have gone the extra mile. we certainly had an opportunity to bring this agreement to closure with the government of iraq. i think we needed to essentially close the deal. i think prime minister al-maliki needed to have a little more empathy with regard to the american position. >> look, we have a lot of leverage, and yet we didnt bring it to b...

>> no. what i would not have done is left 10,000 troops in iraq that would tie us down. that would not help us in the mid eels. >> there was an effort on the part of the president to have a status forces agreement. >> in fact i think you have to give the point to mitt romney on that. provided as part of the troop withdrawal by george w. bush in a deal with iraqi prime minister there would be a status of forces agreement and there would be a residual force that was talked as little as 5,000 the m...