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No choice but to say what he said, that al maliki isn't going to be doing everything we wish he were doing on the security front. >> i mean, there are two concerns. one is he's many things. he's not a democrat. when you are in a -- >> small "d" democrat. >> he's arresting his political rivals in some cases killing them. he's arresting and -- >> you feel like he's a strong man? >> yes. >> obviously, he's not hussein but something in the area of hosni mubarak. president obama said he was inclusive. no sunni politician would tell you he's inclusive. they are reviving de-baathification. they are a...

>> that committee was behind this renewed de-baathification and attempt to disbar a whole set of people from running. >> indeed. they announced the list. they determined who was on it. they had a key role in the adjudication of it, later as appeals were issue and so forth. that did, indeed, especially coming so close to the actual elections caused quite a bit of political turmoil. they've worked through it. the fact is there are tens of thousands of candidates of which several hundred now in the end will have been disqualified. as with everything in iraq, there's again -- with iraqracy as we'v...

They did have a democratically elected -- >> 200,000 civilians were killed in the five years up to that point. >> how do you deal with the fact most of the leadership with isis are people thrown out of the iraqi military by u.s. policy? how do you accept that fact? >> i don't accept that fact. who is to blame? >> hole on guys. i think the fact is who is time to have blame for that? i think the fact that you're going to blame the people, "a," in iraqi government who allowed them to come into power. and "b," i'm going on blame this administration. i am. >> the de-baathification was the policy ...

>> and i'm saying they're terrorists that are terrorizing the -- it's a fact. >> whose policy was it to throw these people out of the iraqi government? just answer one question and we'll move on. whose policy was to it get rid of all the sunnis in the government, throw them out and single them out to the country? >> the coalition of nearly 39 countries around the world including the united states. >> you want to rewrite your own facts. how can you -- >> de-baathification was issued -- >> multiple choice responses on the iraq war. they seem to have jarred anybody in the 2016 field.tçó]c today...