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Continue so well. obviously at walter reed, talking to those who have as a result of that sacrifice been harmed. and i think you will see in both tomorrows events at fort bliss and ultimately during his speech, lifting up all of those who served. many of whom served two, three, four missions in a dangerous area. >> reporter: the president to meet time lines in iraq as an aexpheefment -- megyn: there you hear the questioning focusing more on iraq and the end of combat operations you will hear fro...

Afghanistan. >> right. he is defining a limits of ambition with iraq and afghanistan. as you pointed out, you know, the original withdrawal plan were seeing this month predicated on the idea of elections and a new government and a transition in place before pulling out the majority of the troops. theres been an election but no new government and decided that doesnt matter. well go ahead and pull out anyway. their argument, by the way, the transitional government, the temporary government in plac...

Battle in afghanistan means that you and i and mike barnicle and governor rendell are going to continue talking to moms that have to bury their 19, 20, 21-year-old boys because we are in a war right now where, again, were not in control. and, mike barnicle, i want to talk about the politics, not only of what has gone on since obama has been president, but when bush was president. in this instance, or lets say partisan is the opiate of the masses. when we were in afghanistan, democrats said, well...

Saying that. saying we dont think thats going to happen. and so i -- really, we dont get to show this on the air, because we never really get the time. there we go. too many layers. there we go. this is what a computer model looks like. >> okay. >> you can go online, to florida state, some other website. these are very, very easily defined on many of the edu websites. educational websites. and so lets see -- there it is. there it starts. and heres where the potential is. this is what this comput...

>> i want my life back. >> may 31st seems like forever ago, that was tony hayward saying i would like my life back. well, he may just get it. there are reports out right now from "the times" of london that tony hayward might be nearing or might be on his way out the door at bp. maybe sometime in the next couple of months. now, bp, a quote from a company insider in this article says that he is utterly damaged goods. however, bp has denied this report. the houston-based company has told cnn, a spo...

People like you, from your ideological origins, turned, i think, significant george will and others on president bush, which is suddenly he wanted to build something that was not there. >> it wam became very wilsonian. >> were at the point where, i mean, its this debate over time lines almost seems ridiculous. i understand the danger of time lines. >> i agree with you. >> so were never going to talk about them ever? and were just going to keep going and going? were going to have to. >> the time ...

With a wink of its right eye the administration tells afghanistan, pakistan, nato allies and its own military leadership that the july 2011 date is effectively meaningless, the notion that a major drawdown will begin next year absolutely has not been decided, says secretary of defense robert gates. the problem with this is it appears from what were learning from the speaker of the house today that a wink to the left may not be sufficient, and that there is a move afoot in the other body to use t...

>> no. as i said, i support the presidents policy, and i will also provide my best professional military advice as we conduct assessments. >> reporter: now, to me that was a very interesting answer because the question up here since this episode happened with general mcchrystal and since this brought the whole debate about the afghanistan policy to the forefront has been whether or not that beginning withdrawal date, the beginning of july 2011, whether that should stand. as you know, suzanne, re...

Withdraw from a certain date, because thats not how generals think. they think were going to win this thing, were going to wipe everybody out, were going to control the situation. and hes got a situation that cant be controlled. and thats when you tell generals what theyre going to do. and weve said that around this table, certainly weve said it. i dont want to drag these other people in. generals hate them. but, we talked about this day in and day out, mark halperin, and the white house has kno...

Of civilians and judicial -- with respect to the judicial independence of afghanistan. i found it very happy for me to convey back to the afghan people that i found a very supportive voice from president obama on these accounts, and im very glad to report to you that we will be setting up a team of our senior advisers to work out the exact time lines of the transfer of detention centers to the afghan government, which i consider to be a major point of progress in our conversations. mr. president...