COM The Colbert Report July 4, 2014
[cheering and applause] welcome to the report. Good to have you with us. Nation, i dont know what it is, but tonight i feel ten years younger. It might be the summer sun or the smell of barbecue or the chaos in iraq. [laughter] jim . Militants on the move in iraq conquering city after city. Theyve now taken mosul, iraqs second largest city, tikrit, saddam husseins hometown, baiji, an iraqi oil refinery town, and today they are taking direct aim at baghdad. The countrys government and military is literally disintegrating before our eyes. The situation is growing more urgent as American Contract...