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Repeated statements that he does not want to put "boots on the ground in iraq." joining me now, colonel oliver north, he is host of "war stories" and also author of the new book "counterfeit lies." colonel, great to see you. the thought, i suppose, perhaps we send some special forces to assist in counterterrorism and training of some of the iraqi troops. your thoughts on that? >> well, i think it's too late for that because one you don't have a status of forces agreement, which is why he originally withdrew the forces from iraq. we had won this war in 2006 and '07 in anbar province. the very t...

And i commit news tonight. whether they know it in washington or not, i've spent 11 out of 13 ramadans in that part of the world. here's what's going to happen. come june 28th when ramadan begins, the battle lines are going to be static because they're not going to attack, unless we've killed a whole bunch of civilians with air strikes without air controllers on the ground. you see, what this administration has done is created a cascade of catastrophe with their dithering and delay, going all the way back to december of 2011 when obama did what the troops call the obama bugout. and you ought n...

Controllers. you need joint tactical air controllers to control munitions being dropped from airplanes like you're showing on the screen right now. they ought not to do that without a status of forces agreement. what they should do is start immediately evacuating as many american citizens as they possibly can from iraq because you don't want a repeat of saigon 1975. >> you think we need to get the americans out of there, asap? >> absolutely. and don't wait for this thing to develop further, because dithering and delay, which this administration is famous for, will get you all kinds of trouble ...

But wherever those battle lines are, that's going to be the stalemate that divides iraq into a kurdish state, an islamic radical sunni state in the middle and the shiites in the south. that's the reality of what we're getting. why would we want to start bombing people without air controllers on the ground with the iraqis? and the reason why we don't want to put them with the iraqis is we don't have that status of forces agreement and this administration ought not to do that to american troops. you need to have search and rescue in place. you need to have those kinds of people who know that the...

And out of the scene is to provide some assistance and have somebody like crocker on the ground. there were just elections in iran. parliament is still split. golden tud to create a coalition. crocker knows all the players. if obama would allow himself to have people of great competence and stature involve themselves and conducting foreign policy other than running it himself in the presence of let's say people who don't exactly have the stature of henry kissinger. >> i was surprised although there is no appetite for boots on the ground, i was surprised to hear the president of the united stat...