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Conservative that pushed for the war in iraq. >> isn't it one of the reasons that people attack us we have troops in their counselry? >> first of all why 2000 americans got killed had little to do with saudi arabia and everything to do with osama bin laden and al-qaida. a guy running for president of the united states who is getting poll number oversimplifies the foreign policy in the time of war. of course we need adjustments. but stop helping israel and investments and cut the defense budget and that is beyond ridiculous in the middle of a war. >> close all of these bases. we have 300,000 so...

barack obama. i think it will be very hard for him to win the general election because i think it just blurs everything. i think a real conservative who stands for solid values, essentially for new hampshire values -- >> the former massachusetts governor holds what looks like an insurmountable lead in new hampshire so he is moving on to south carolina. that state's primary is january 21st. it has been a deadly day in iraq. at least 60 people were killed in attacks in baghdad and other cities across the country. most of the victims were shiites raising fears of renewed sectarian vio...

Presidential politics, what is the likelihood that the republican nominee will spend a lot of time on foreign policy, on defense issues, going after the president who got osama bin laden? >> well, they would like to, because this has traditionally been an area of strength so the old canards are democrats are soft on security. you heard some of that empty rhetoric tonight, but the truth is the president is carrying a majority support of the american people on national security. so it's not a very good line of attack for the republican party. our president has a good, strong, national security p...

Has some acceptance by the american public is spending on defense issues. spending on other issues isn't quite as popular these days. i think the obama administration, they will make the argument that as the draw downs in iraq and afghanistan proceed, some of that savings can be used to rotate some of the money -- move some of that money in the defense department to new projects like this one here in australia. >> there also could be the possibility of the argument being by the president that is, we'll open lines of commerce and trade expanding. there's an interesting tid bit, 5.3 trillion in ...

ties to the terrorist group in afghanistan. top officials have indicated this week that there is evidence that pakistan's intelligence agency is supporting what is called the haqqani network and now going one step further saying they believe that the support is coming from the agencies' highest ranks. our pentagon correspondent barbara starr is standing by with the latest. barbara, a lot at stake right now, and what are the officials saying? >> well, wolf, pakistan is supposed to be one of the u.s.'s closest allies in the war of terror and the united states gives them billions of dol...