Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100901:03:21:00
Leaving, that any of those things wouldn't be true? >> no. for the last year or so, the combat troops really haven't been doing anything. so what's on the ground in iraq today or two weeks ago or three weeks from now doesn't change very much. the combat troops there were just kind of waiting to leave. a lot of them were in iraq still to give the iraqis a little bit more time to try and create a government, which they never were able to do. the real challenge is, if there isn't a government, american troops are truly now confined to their bases and the militant groups are somewhat energized by ...