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Action if and when we determine that the situation on the ground requires it. it is the in our national security interests not to see an all out civil war inside of iraq. >> this is a complicated situation. but the president refuses to repeat mistakes of the past. >> here at home, iraq sparked vigorous debates and intense emotionses in the past. oo we have seen those resurface. what's clear is the need for the united states to ask hard questions before we take action abroad. particularly military action. >> hard questions before we take action abroad. we saw what happened last time. i was agai...

While he was typically modest about his experience, his is a story of bravery and selflessness in the face of mortal danger. >> well, if you ask any recipient about his action he won't talk about it. he'll tell you about everybody else's action. i think most recipients are like that. because most people who get recognized for combat action, whether it's medal of honor or anything else, all would rather talk about the other people who were brave on that day. but in a nutshell, i was an adviser to a vietnam ease infantry battalion. we had lost contact with the enemy about three days earlier. got...

He's an excellent soldier. he's had two previous deployments to iraq, two very hard deployments irq. 'sn eelntoler a the-- >> did he witness -- right, he's got charges here, murder, conspiracy to commit murder, assault, and conspiracy to commit assault. did he witness any of the murders? >> no. as a matter of fact, we're not sure that there were any murders at all, despite what morlock says. in michael wagnon's case, what happened was, he was in a mission, they were conducting a mission, and he heard fire and he responded to it. he heard both ak-47 and m-16 fire, so enemy and friendly fire, an...

Soldiers may have been pursuing when they were ambushed and the high-value terrorist target they may have been directed to pursue. that news comes to light tonight at the same time that the u.s. army has released the service records of the soldiers who were killed. and those service records show that whatever dangerous and relatively unsupported mission these soldiers were on, they did not have significant combat experience between them. one of the four soldiers who was killed had never before been an on an overseas deployment. the others had each one deployment. none of them had been awarded ...

Nature of the mission these soldiers may have been pursuing when they were ambushed and the high-value terrorist target they may have been directed to pursue. that news comes to light tonight at the same time that the u.s. army has released the service records of the soldiers who were killed. and those service records show that whatever dangerous and relatively unsupported mission these soldiers were on, they did not have significant combat experience between them. one of the four soldiers who was killed had never before been an on an overseas deployment. the other three soldiers that were kil...