Page 14 - Tom Ricks News Today

In past times they might have been veterans themselves or sent children there, men or women, sons an daughters to fight but that is not as true today as it was then. >> right. i think the way in which the military policy does involve almost every member of congress is through contracts. for example, modern weapons smexs have contracted in almost every congressional district and state and so there is a stimulus package that they have. but when it comes to having serious debate about what kind of ...

Commentators like tom ricks and others have said, this is not a job to be loved by the generals. its to remind the general whos boss and thats why i wrote that ash was going to have to fire a four-star general somewhere along in there to show them that he really is in control of that building. >> well definitely be watching. thank you very much, steve clemons. really appreciate it. more fallout now for bill cosby, the comedian resigned from the board of directors at temple university giving up...

House of representatives and 100 senators, all of whom have a right to represent their people, and they should do it, and the leaders cannot make a pronouncement like that and expect us to just roll over and accept it. it is simply -- must be voted on by the congress. >> do you have the sense that if any type of military action, not talking ground troops, something like air strikes, for instance, came before congress, just given the mood of the country, given the war fatigue that exists in this ...

tikrit from above. iraqi military is trying to secure the highways into and out of baghdad. they are going to be aided by a fleet of russian fighter jets. these are bought second hard reportedly for $500 million. the first batch of those jets arrived in baghdad yesterday. we want to get the very latest from the ground from nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel who is on the ground in baghdad. richard? >> reporter: good morning. as you said, it seems like the government is ...

The bush administration. having invaded iraq with a small force, what the expert tom ricks called the worst war plan in american history, the administration needed to find local allies fast. it quickly decided to destroy iraqs sunni-ruling establishment and empower the hardline shiite religious parties that had opposed saddam hussein. this meant that a structure of sunni power that had undergirded the area, for better or worse, for centuries, quickly collapsed. these moves to disband the army, d...

They have names of the dead. this morning theres an 18-year-old private in arrow milliard from birmingham, alabama. hes 18. that means when the planes hit the buildings he was 6 years old. so think about that. if you started this war in october of 2001, could you ever have imagined we would be talking about 2014, almost a decade and a half later as the exit date. >> willie, its unbelievable. tom ricks warned about this. so many years ago, when he wrote his book about the wars that were engaged i...

0 welcome to "morning joe." with us on set former communications director for president george w. bush and former senior adviser for the 2008 mccain presidential campaign nicolle wallace, msnbc and "time" magazine senior political analyst mark halperin, and in washington, d.c., senior political editor and white house correspondent for the "the huffington post," i think he would like calendar model in there as well, sam stein. >> he is hot. >> joe -- >> holy cow. >> yes. i think thats a word that...

0 happy mothers day. i dont know how she did it and i dope want to know. >> you know when you ask your parents what you were like, my mom says i was high energy. the translation to that was a horrible, horrible toddler. hor. mom, you did a great job. great job back here. "morning joe" starts right now. >> we republicans were in charge for eight years. when i was saying it in real-time, is that chris? >> hey, hey. >> good lord! >> how are you doing? >> this was a great story, chris christie! than...

intelligence for about seven years now. before that i was covering the military. >> you realize when youre covering the military and the intelligence world, increasingly you realize youre covering the same thing. they have converged so much over the last 12 years in these wars outside of the war zones so i decided that it was probably after the bin laden raid which sort of highlighted this. you had navy seals who were operating under c.i.a. authority. this was... this very dramatic exa...

intelligence for about seven years now. before that i was covering the military. >> you realize when youre covering the military and the intelligence world, increasingly you realize youre covering the same thing. they have converged so much over the last 12 years in these wars outside of the war zones so i decided that it was probably after the bin laden raid which sort of highlighted this. you had navy seals who were operating under c.i.a. authority. this was... this very dramatic exa...