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Killing people. it will enlarge the conflict toward a civil war and sectarian conflict for sure. but the fact of the matter is, there are two danger points in front of us. one is this radical islamist caliphate and iraq becoming a client state of iran. bill: the viewers are asking a lot of questions. why should the u.s. intervene in iraq's civil war between sunnis, shiites and kurds. i think you pretty much answered that. what does the president do? >> the fact of the matter is, there need to be a sense of urgency here. put aside what caused this problem and just deal with what's in front of u...

Baghdad or protect baghdad from the approaching insurgents. what is the real threat here where iran is even more tightly connected to iraq than ever before? >> i think you raise an excellent point because this is also connected to syria. this whole isis group are moving back and forth from the syria into iraq, which is the area that general clapper and others have warned us about establishment of this area of extremist control. so i think that if maliki turn to the iranians, then to a degree, he turns iraq into a client state much like the situation in syria today. that has horrendous potentia...

In baghdad meeting with malaki to say, we are here to protect you. this is the whole thing seems like a powder keg. >> yes. it's not surprising. kasim saul manny is a major adviser to assad in syria, and they look at syria as a client state. they provided thousands of quds force to assist assad to stay in power. he sees the opportunity. he's looking at the united states. malaki has been asking for some support for a couple of months. it we haven't been giving him much of anything. he sees that opportunity, and if malaki doesn't get the help he needs to hold on, he'll look to the iranians, to s...

Basically saying i want to overthrow saddam. find me a way to do it. not if. how. >> saddam hussein's past use of chemical and biological weapons and the prospect of him developing a nuclear weapon make him a prime target. as does the liberation of what iraq has under the ground. >> in the first meeting, rumsfeld says, imagine, imagine if iraq was essentially a client state of the united states? imagine how that would look, if they were a friendly state. if we had primacy and access and maybe control of their oil field and rumsfeld is pointed about this, in the first meeting, in fact, oil fiel...

At which point she says i think iraq is the big issue in this region, the destabilizing force and that's going to be our focus. the reaction of both o'neill and powell, they are startled. o'neill summed it up, bush basically saying i want to overthrow saddam. find me a way to do it. not if. how. >> saddam hughes say's past use of chemical and biological weapons and the prospect of him developing a nuclear weapon make him a prime target. as does the liberation of what iraq has under the ground. >> in the first meeting, rumsfeld says, imagine, imagine if iraq was essentially a client state of th...