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You know. it was one of those things that it the average american just didnt see coming. you know, i had never thought that terror would be that close to our front door. >> by 2004, the u.s. would be waging war on two fronts. in afghanistan and in iraq where romesha was sent as a tank driver and gunner. on his second deployment in 2006, romesha became a scout. >> the idea of being a scout, sneaking around being your most effective weapon being the fact that no one knows youre there and having th...

Were going to use them in various ways, and we need to figure it out. >> i think youre right, and i think hemingway used to write about that, its tougher to be an infantry man than a tank driver because you have to do the walking into the fear, physically walk into it. look at this point lindsey graham made about the republicans who joined with senator paul in that filibuster yesterday. lets listen to graham. >> to my republican colleagues, i dont remember any of you coming down here suggesting ...

To have the option -- >> what would be wrong with using that technology rather than a bomb thrown in the window? >> good question. good question. >> weve had experience in philadelphia when they blew up a whole bock. >> philadelphia as usual ahead of its time. >> in all sear yusness -- why is using the drone worse than, say, smoking out the house or killing the guy. >> its killing the guy, and there is a certain antiseptic, creepy, at a distance quality -- >> stand back weapons. >> to drone warf...

Operations underway and im not scorning it in the least. it is terrific, but, again, we are going all around the problem, and not going at the heart of the problem which is qaddafi and, which you also pointed out, he is harder to get now, because hell duck and be underground, moving and in bunkers, but, nonetheless, the core of the problem, is not the tank driver, or the artillerymen firing on benghazi though it is important to get them, the core of the problem is muammar qaddafi, arch terrorist...

>>shepard: i feel like we are building toward something, here, that the military has made a slight move firing into the air trying to get people to disperse and we are looking at a wide shot. we are fortunate to have a number of cameras at the ready for us if this square so these pictures from our sister network, sky news, based in the united kingdom and covers that part of the world and is a good partner and pictures from a news feed service and our own camera there from ashley webster and it a...

Today was a lot of people whose sympathies were divided in the first place, and according to locals i talked to, when these tanks rolled into town, the people driving the tanks were demoralized, they were tired, they were hungry, they were dirty. the locals came up and gave them food, gave them water, gave them some nice conversation and said, why dont you fly the russian flag, and the tank driver said, okay, sort of shrugged and drove off flying the russian flag. >> absolutely fascinating repor...

And so i think what you saw today was a lot of people whose sympathies were divided in the first place, and according to locals i talked to, when these tanks rolled into town, the people driving the tanks were demoralized, they were tired, they were hungry, they were dirty. the locals came up and gave them food, gave them water, gave them some nice conversation and said, why dont you fly the russian flag, and the tank driver said, okay, sort of shrugged and drove off flying the russian flag. >> ...

>> james thank you. >> so many things have changed in libya. one of those. a populas that is willing to fight the government. apparently able. >> before the protest citizens could get shot for drive nothing an army base. but the soldiers abandoned their post after refusing to fire on demonstrators. a tank driver. >> the protestors were family. we could not shoot them. >> what were in the boxes that people took? >> ak 47 . the rooms once stacked to the ceilings have boxes on the ground. they took...

>> james thank you. >> so many things have changed in libya. one of those. a populas that is willing to fight the government. apparently able. >> before the protest citizens could get shot for drive nothing an army base. but the soldiers abandoned their post after refusing to fire on demonstrators. a tank driver. >> the protestors were family. we could not shoot them. >> what were in the boxes that people took? >> ak 47 . the rooms once stacked to the ceilings have boxes on the ground. they took...