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They re very savvy to their audience. what they re trying to show the world and to the sunni people of iraq is that they re predominant, they re capable and that they re on the rise, and that their cause is spiraling upward. so i would suspect you re going to see more of this in the future. so i want to just, in terms of where we are right now, a very brief clip of a discussion i had last night with the former ambassador to iraq, paul bremer. here he is. we basically had defeated al qaeda in iraq, the sunni extremists, by the end of 2009. in fact really by the end of 2008. our departure at the end of 2011 was a signal to the iraqis that we were leaving. the signal you talked about is a crucial one which i think everyone can agree on, which is when u.s. forces would leave iraq. that was a decision made by george w. bush and the stat us of forces agreement he sign in 2008. he said all u.s. forces would be ....
Out by december 2011. all combat forces. but that was a decision made by combat forces. combat forces. that s an important distinction. colonel, i just want to point out ambassador bremer was technically incorrect on that one issue, the status of forces signed by president bush did include withdrawal of all u.s. forces by 2011. there s plenty of blame to go around. when you look at this, given it was part of the surge, does the fault lie to you more with the bush or the obama administration? first, i have to commend you on the interview quliew yesterdh i watched in full. i don t know what kind of alternate universe bremer is living in that he had no responsibility when it was his decisions to to be baath-ify iraq that created the military basis for the insurgency is just a fantasy world. you know, most of the blame goes to the bush administration for getting us into iraq in first ....
But there are some security problems there. i still have a price on my head from al qaeda so i m not sure it would be wise. certainly my wife doesn t think it would be very wise. now, ambassador bremer was famous for those boots that he wore with his business suit when he was in iraq for a year. he said he still actually has the boots in a closet. his wife only lets him bring them out once a year for a sort of reunion. he says that, you know, from the perspective of the iraqis, and it would be interesting to hear from the iraqis as well they have very complicated feelings about this. almost every iraqi you talk to will say that they resent the security situation. they re very grateful that the u.s. got rid of saddam hussein, but they hate the occupation and there s a lot that is still unsettled in their country. for the united states i guess is the question? was it worth it for the united states? that is a very good question. he didn t seem to answer that directly. in ....
Confirm the presence of ptsd even though you just now told us that this is based on a lie. perhaps i should have re-admitted the test. wow. at the time samuel tested arias in january of 2010 she was claiming two unknown intruders had killed alexander. so on this tenth anniversary of the u.s. invasion, deadly proof that iraq is still at war with itself. nearly 50 people have been killed and scores more wounded in an outbreak of bombings and shootings. most of the attacks have been in baghdad and shiite areas. this really is such a fragile democracy at this point. and i talked about this with paul bremer. he was the american civilian tapped to run iraq in the early 2003. ambassador bremer vividly remembers the day he arrived there. the invasion was over, but the trouble was just beginning. it was chaotic. i remember looking down from the c-130 as we prepared to land in baghdad airport, and the city ....
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