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Defense apparatus, $662 billion or more than the 2011 budget's proposed spending on medicare, the fda, the national institute for health, the centers for disease prevent and control and the national park service, crop insures, the fbi, the dea, federal prison system, global health, the federal aviation and highway and railroad administration, the environment tam administration and nasa combined for those scoring at home. this year's defense policy bill attracted controversy and scrutiny for provisions it contains for people deemed suspected terrorists. three provisions that have attracted wide...

Believes it's a better country on the 15th of december 2011 than it was on the 20th of march, 2003 when the war began. listen to judy. >> better in terms of infrastructure probably not. better in terms of the potential for a brighter future, absolutely. i mean, saddam hussein is gone. 30 years of tyranny are over. his sons who were even crazier than he was will never rule that country. iraq stands just a shot now at a deincident is progressive stable future. that's more than they had before. >> a shot at a better future but much will now depend on the strength of iraq's security forces and, sh...

Them in a better position in order to succeed over the long term. short term, folks are still hurting. >> you can see barbara walters' full interview with the president and mrs. obama on a "20/20" holiday special. december 23. >> another barbara walters exclusive. you go, ms. walters. well, there is an agreement to keep the government running through next september. democrats and republicans put aside much of their partisan bickering to reach the funding agreement. without it government agencies would have had to shut down friday night. there is also progress on the payroll tax cut extension...

talk more about it in our "crime and consequences" segment in 20 minutes. the clock is still ticking toward a midnight deadline to avert a partial government shutdown but the pressure's gone down just a little bit. that's john boehner's way of saying both parties in both houses have agreed on a trillion dollar spending package. now they just have to vote on it. the house will vote first. then start its holiday recess. the senate will vote after that. and will try to agree on extending a payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits. if it does, the house will come back to vote on that....

Piece, iraqi security forces are not fully trained or trusted. i think that says it all on a lot of levels. are they ready to protect themselves? >> it is going to be tough. think about that, 8 years, 7 months, 14 days ago, president bush flew on to the aircraft carrier and proclaimed mission accomplished. well -- >> that, obviously, was criticized in hindsight for being premature. here we are finally wrapping up. the question will linger in the history books should we have ever been there in the first place? >> so many lost lives, so many lost lives, young people. >> can't get the lives back....