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You get out. some said it picked them up and some said it calmed them down. oul how about alka-seltzer. it's become a big seller. another ads take it for an upset stomach and lots of you do. probably shouldn't because alka-seltzer contains baking soda but it also has aspirin in it and it makes your stomach bleed a little. let's say you have a bleeding ulcer, you take the alka-seltzer to relieve the pain and but then your stomach bleeds and you are really in pain. when i learned this stuff there ought to be law. there ought to be restrictions on advertising to protect

Are those really stories of the past, and everything is different now, or is there a lot of resonance? >> first of all, we need to look at how shocking that is to say that this is -- the fact that it's old news means it's irrelevant. these documents prove that the u.s. military has been whitewashing the war since the beginning. they have covered up civilian casualties. they have covered up successful insurgent attacks and downplayed their significance, and they have covered up the violent criminalality of the security forces that we've created that are preying on the civilian population and tu...

Upper level taliban and other extremist element leaders have been killed and cuptured. but six months ago we could not have walked through the market in marjah as i was able to do with the district governor there two mobt months ago. >> he also said marjah is going much slower than we thought it would. i should add june was the deadliest month of the year. when you listen to that part of his assessment, does it match up with how you see things going? >> you know, it really doesn't. because i think -- what we were told by general mcchrystal, at least in what he's said publicly about marjah bein...

Bleeding ulcer and we've had reports the governance -- what the afghans were supposed to do as a follow-on simply didn't happen. i think general petraeus is trying to put a positive spin taun because he needs the support of congress. i think there's a gap between what general petraeus is saying and what is happening on the ground. but i think general petraeus is going to do a great job for us in afghanistan. >> there is no argument that marjah is better than it was five years ago, even three years ago. marjah is better and it did not work out the way we planned it. and the reason is mcchrystal...

What we were told by general mcchrystal and what he said about marjah being a bleeding ulcer, and we had reports that the afghans, what they were supposed to do did not happen. these congressmen passed the war supplemental, so i think there is a gap between what general petraeus is saying and what is happening on the ground. he is going to do a great job in afghanistan for us. >> there is no argument that marjah is better than it was five years ago, given three years ago. marjah is better and it did not work out the way we planned it. and the reason is mcchrystal did not kill enough bad guys. ...