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Defense establishment saying that anything that makes vladimir putin happy should make us concerned. you say what? >>ments well, it rankles the defense establishment because they have to justify enormous budgets, all right, and i think if the american people realized take syria, that war cost upwards of $250 billion since it started. thats what, 50,000 a year another five million police officers or school teachers that we could have paid for in this country. dont get me wrong, im not a passivist...

A source of unbiased news you mentioned people were isolated and werent allowed to travel they lived in permanent fear and stress they listens to all foreign war cost is not just torture vella the other foreign stations to go and then those who dont you velour had an excellent reputation for them. and referred to. the fall of the berlin wall and german reunification heralded a new era for daughter bella in one thousand nine hundred two t w launched its satellite television station. point down it...

Ask kelsey gabbert. she remember the lessons of a rock perhaps because she served there herself and she has consistently warned against intervening in syria, she said it serves no u.s. interest likely empower terror groups and it could have dramatically increased the suffering of civilians there. you might not agree with her point of view but you cannot call her positions crazy because they are not crazy. they are still too much for the modern democratic party. just last weekend, she was denounc...

Several others have been convicted for their role if that murder. it is a bloody day across iraq as the nation marks the tenth anniversary of the u.s.-led invasion that toppled saddam hussein. at least 53 people died in a series of car and roadside bombings and shootings. anniversary of the start of the iraq war is almost always accompanied by a spike in deadly violence. learns will be calculating the cost of the iraq war for generations. from the moment combat operations began exactly ten yea...

a handful of people whos been into north korea and very familiar with the region. >> i am and i have to say quite a shock. he had been sick since 2008 officially. had suffer add stroke there, but i think it came to a shock to a lot of people including south korea and we do begin with this breaking news thinking morning. some hope, some fear and lots of uncertainty. people are reacting worldwide to the death of north korean dictator kim jong-il. his 17-year reign of power is over. >> th...

This country. >> well, the war was initially justified for some as an effort to rid iraq of weapons of mass destruction. i never believed all these cases, anyway, which of course the country didnt possess in the first place. about 4,500 americans gave their lives in that effort over there. an additional 32,000 were wounded. the war cost nearly $1 trillion for us. to this day, its impossible to look at these numbers and not ask the simple question, was it worth it? was it the right war to fight? ...

About 4,500 americans gave their lives in that effort over there. an additional 32,000 were wounded. the war cost nearly $1 trillion for us. to this day, its impossible to look at these numbers and not ask the simple question, was it worth it? was it the right war to fight? kimberly dozier covered the war for cbs news. she was severely wounded by a car bomb, an experience she writes about in her book, "breathing the fire: fighting to survive and get back to the fight." she now covers the intelli...

Your dedication, your commitment to this mission, has been the driving force behind the remarkable progress that weve seen here in baghdad and across this country. >> well, the war was initially justified for some as an effort to rid iraq of weapons of mass destruction. i never believed all these cases, anyway, which of course the country didnt possess in the first place. about 4,500 americans gave their lives in that effort over there. an additional 32,000 were wounded. the war cost nearly $1 t...

thing. cnn newsroom continues right now with randi kaye. >> hi there, suzanne. thank you. well, three major stories on the radar this hour. starting with a major hurricane. category 3 irene batters the bahamas and eyes the carolinas. chad myers is watching that. a hostage ordeal is over in tripoli, but the fighting goes on, and moammar gadhafi still out of sight. and washington surveys the damage from the earthquake that shook the east coast almost 24 hours ago. i want to start w...

State legislature in this case. >> you negotiate it. many, many unions have given up parts of their pensions across the country. youre absolutely right. some of the pension systems are breaking municipalities, counties all over the country. a lot of unions have given back. its similar situation that we face with entitlements. we have on the municipal level we have huge pension plans and in washington we have entit entitleme entitlements, neither of which are sustainable. the great national gover...