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this in an interview, cbss ""60 minutes"," the president challenges the political partisanship. he says republican strategy cuts him off at the knees. >> i think the republicans made a different calculation, which was, you know what, we really screwed up the economy. obama seems popular. our best bet is to stand on the sidelines because we think the economy will get worse and at some point just blame him. so we havent gotten the kind of engagement from them that i would have liked. a...

No doubt about that. jon is right. >> larry: jon, was the war worth 4,400 lives? >> i dont think it was worth one american life. we went into war on the pretext there were weapons of mass destruction. we had no human intelligence. the pentagon obviously cooked the books with their own intelligence teams that secretary rumsfeld had generated and sold to congress. now if you asked a kurd or shia, they may have a different take. as an american soldier who served there, no, its a war that never shou...

Making sure we provide every single possible incentive for them to reach political consensus, bring about a new government which can then renegotiate with the united states if we want to have a longer force. our guys are going to face combat. no doubt about that. jon is right. >> larry: jon, was the war worth 4,400 lives? >> i dont think it was worth one american life. we went into war on the pretext there were weapons of mass destruction. we had no human intelligence. the pentagon obviously coo...

Is that this really does put afghanistan front and center. we have those hearings, those confirmation hearings for general petraeus. hell get confirmed, ill go out on a limb and say that but people are going to start, youve heard that from senator mccain, going to start reviewing the policy in afghanistan just a little bitterly and the question of whether we ought to begin the drawdown in july. >> well, i love that were going to start reviewing the policy. guess what? the you have to go back, th...