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Increase our political influence, both with the government and the sunni tribes with whom we've had close dealings with in the past. i don't, however, think we will serve our interests or the interests of any of the confirmed parties with a large conventional military force on the ground, combat troops, no. but the real weakness of the iraqi army as i see it, and i defer to the expertise of the general here, the tactical weakness. they have very, very bad tactical leadership. and i think that's where training mentorship of u.s. troops is going to be very important. keeping them there at the ba...

Iraqi army. al-maliki, began to purge officers right down to the battalion level. >> this is who you say was democratically elected. >> the democratic -- hitly was elected. >> that may be the case. >> the contradiction in what you are saying. >> no, it's not. eye has iraq has a democratically effected government. >> but that led to where we are now but isn't in any way partly your responsibility. that's what i don't understand. that's the contradiction i'm referring to. >> erin, we went into iraq to get rid of osama bin laden. at the end of which we had two choices. we either tried to set up s...

Female soldier under his command, then forced her into prostitution and allegedly assaulted two others. >> usa today citing two senior pentagon officials this morning the sergeant is accused of, quote, running a prostitution ring. again, this is the guy in charge of sexual assault prevention for the u.s. army at the battalion level at ft. hood, and he is under investigation for sexual assault and running a prostitution ring. it is the kind of news that would be shocking and stomach turning enough on its own, but, of course, this news is not coming on its own, just a week after we learned of an...

>> "usa today" citing two senior pentagon officials this morning the sergeant is accused of, quote, running a prostitution ring. again, this is the guy in charge of sexual assault prevention for the u.s. army at the battalion level at ft. hood, and he is under investigation for sexual assault and running a prostitution ring. it is the kind of news that would be shocking and stomach turning enough on its own, but, of course, this news is not coming on its own, just a week after we learned of another military official in charge of sexual assault prevention being accused himself of sexual assault...

It has done to keep women from being recognized for serving in combat. >> to make it to a general, for example, without a combat arms command at the brigade or the battalion level, and this will now allow women to have some of that command time. >> in 2009, major mary jennings hager, a combat helicopter pilot in the california air national guard, she was on a medevac mission in afghanistan when her aircraft was shot down. she was wounded on the ground. she had 15 pieces of shrapnel in her right arm and leg, but she still returned to retrieve three wounded soldiers on the ground. she returned f...