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Contribution to that annual $4 billion cost is going be rough ly 0.1 of $1 billion pledging essentially a rounding error to the cost of afghanistans security after the war. gee, thanks. second thing, the american presidential election, mitt romney has so far not been able to gain traction in an effort to politicize the afghanistan war. he has taken positions for and against timetables for withdrawal, said he would like to bring the troops home and also said we have to stay until the taliban is d...

Consistent with the word that comes from our generals. mitt romney on a timetable for exiting the iraq war in 2007. >> do you believe there should be a timetable in withdrawing the troops? >> theres no question but the president and prime minister maliki have to have a series of timetables and milestones that they speak about, but those shouldnt be for public pronouncement. >> they have to have a set of timetables. this is what he said in 2008. >> i do not support and have never support a time w...

Behind the scenes on this. what kind of discussions are happening at the highest levels of our government about expediting the process of leaving afghanistan? were already supposed to leave at the end of 2014. how much quicker can we reasonably get out of the country? >> right now were about 90,000 troops, were due to get down to just under 70,000 by september. so the real question is how do we go from 70,000 say to 20,000 or 15,000? do we do that over two years? over 12 months, thats the discus...

We dont get to talk about it enough. that is the soldier himself. it is horrifying to me that this man was sent out four deployments, potentially with a traumatic brain injury. clearly, we should all hold ourselves accountable. >> the treatment of our soldiers. >> and press our government to say, we can talk about deficits and all that, but thats a real crime. >> and 99% of the american people have been protected from exposure to the military engagement since the very first day we invaded afghan...

The mas are going to keep trying, but lets be real and realistic here about what the israelis understand. the israelis are convince that iran with a nuclear weapon is an existential threat. they have separate timetables here over determining how much the threat is proceeded. theis ryllis believe that if iran has enough uranium to enrich that as a red line. the american, however, believe iran has to prove that it can produce a nuclear weapon and thats the americans red line and thats why there is...

Benchmarks and things which theyre moving towards with flexible timetables and schedules. those are things which of course exist within our military and within al malikis military. of course you have a series of milestones and yardsticks. >> you believe there should be a timetable in withdrawing the troops? >> well, there is no question but that the president and prime minister al maliki have to have a series of timetables, milestones that they speak about. >> you have to have that. so the last ...

Benchmarks and things which theyre moving towards with flexible timetables and schedules. those are things which of course exist within our military and within al malikis military. of course you have a series of milestones and yardsticks. >> you believe there should be a timetable in withdrawing the troops? >> well, there is no question but that the president and prime minister al maliki have to have a series of timetables, milestones that they speak about. >> you have to have that. so the last ...

Theyre moving towards with flexible timetables and schedules. those are things which of course exist within our military and within al malikis military. of course you have a series of milestones and yardsticks. >> you believe there should be a timetable in withdrawing the troops? >> well, there is no question but that the president and prime minister al maliki have to have a series of timetables, milestones that they speak about. >> you have to have that. so the last time you ran for president, ...

Then -- and were pulling out, the taliban is the strongest side theyre going to turn to. >> i want to get your reaction to this. theres a report out that were looking to move five taliban leaders out of gitmo that we house the worst of the worst in some type of prisoner swap. theyre talking about that now pulling that off. what does that say to people like you fighting to capture those guys before they killed you? >> its infuriating. the taliban is absolutely the enemy. regardless of what has be...

of afghanistan and how much he agrees with his former bosss agrees with his former bosss gop critics. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com we begin with todays verbal fireworks on capitol hill in washington on the face of pointed attacks by republicans, the attorney general eric holder today rejected calls for his resignation and refused to take the blame for a program that sent u.s. guns to mexicos drug gangs in an effort to trace gun smuggling. attorney general holder says he shut...