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Politically, since march 7th of a narrow election that failed to produce a consensus democratic government in iraq and there stis quite a bit of bickering between nouri al-maliki and ayad alawi and the u.s. looked to mediating forces in the long running political impasse and among them, most significantly, the grand ayatollah ali al-sistani and, it was reported earlier this month the president went so far as to send a private letter urging them to play a mediating force and the white house would not comment whether or not that was true but the out going ambassador to iraq said last week the u....

Other? >> reporter: oh, i think you're absolutely right. it is all irrevocably tied together at this point. general mcchrystal has really come to the understanding that there will not be a -- what he calls a u.s. military victory in afghanistan. that the way you bring security to this country is to start working with the people across every town, every village, every mountain pass across afghanistan. make the people believe that their lives can be better by beginning to provide economic assistance, jobs, get the farmers off of growing the poppy crop. and really leave -- the idea is to leave th...

The surge operations have begun, we know that m rachlt ja was relatively successful in helmand. but it is going to pale, compared to the battles that will be seen and fought by u.s. coalition and afghan forces are over the next couple of months. there's a building up period taking place n right now in kandahar province, then eventually kandahar city. we'll see probably 15,000 to 20,000 combat force, be they stryker brigades or be they other 102st infantry division for instance is coming in. 102st airborne. thousands of afghan army and hopefully police coming together at around probably june fi...

Seal. a result of an eye-opening new poll of america's vets. he's done a lot of work through his in-depth series after the wars. brandon, let me start with you. being a navy seal, you've been in war zones. you have seen the worst of it. here we have yet another fatal shooting on a military base. are you surprised that we're seeing this happen again? >> you know, i'm not surprised. ft. hood in itself has really turned into a symbolic target. you know, we have the shooting in 2009, and a thwarted attempt by an awol soldier in 2011. but i think what this shows you, my community from the special o...

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