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After-action reviews after the mission is complete so they can say, how do we do it better next time? how do we improve our action and improve coordination between soldiers? >> one of the conversations that is prevalent right now is the u.s. involvement here. on friday, ash carter said the u.s. could participate in raids such as this but we will not have a combat role. a lot of people are wondering how is that different? >> when you take a look what was happening in this mission and breakdown of the analysis of how this mission was conducted, first of all, they got rapid intelligence that said...

Ate with come under fire, you are under an obligation. i guarantee those men saw them come under fire and there was no way they were not going to come to their assistance, which tends to happen in a trained advise and assist role. if we say something is noncombat, you got to be careful with that, because if you're going to be in the assist role, you could be very close to these fire fights and have to make the same determination. >> those delta force operators made that determination. you said the word slippery slope, which is one that has been used in the past to describe what happened in vie...

Maybe he's having trouble with nick pat on walsh's signal. nick, thank you. the raid has raised new questions about whether the united states has returned to a combat role in iraq. but those who have been down this road before, they know the consequences all too well. in a new interview with fareed zakaria, former prime minister tony blair says he's sorry for some of the things that happened and helped isis come to power. >> given that saddam hussein did not prove to have weapons mass destruction, was the decision to enter iraq and topple his regime a mistake? >> whenever i'm asked this, i c...

It doesn't represent assuming a combat role. it represents a continuation of our advise and assist mission. >> the u.s. has said it doesn't want to send troops back into combat, but when you look at this how do you decipher what is assistance and what is mission creep. >> i would never use that word mission creep unless i had real indicators of this and this certainly isn't it. we have mentioned this before about the difference between conventional operations and counterterrorism operations. this mission would have fallen into the counterterrorism piece. it is getting special forces, in this c...

The lives the people being held in this community. >> quite separately, there's a political issue which is the american people were told they're not in a combat role in iraq. journalists jumped on this calling this mission creep. if the government is saying one thing about what the men and women in uniform are doing but giving them something much more dangerous on the ground. >> don't believe that. it is not mission creep. this is a special operations unit that has -- i saw that when we were there. they're very intense fighters. they want to take the fight to the enemy. i think this special re...