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Surface and mcconnell was right saying that the withdrawal of the troops, the draw down was negotiated by the public administration. in response to iraqi demandses, not as a concession to the american left the he made the decisions on what he thought were the american national interests. and the surge was something that obama opposed. that is the only reason we are now in a position to drawdown. >> what is disturbing is in the speech he spoke of ending the war four times, and did not use the word "success," and he did not speak about a vision for a future of america and iraq together. when the...

Security, military and police. that is a very heavy lift but that is the deadline that he set today and now the question is how he and general petraeus work out the milestones that will lead step by step to that takes place. one other quick point, chuck and savannah, for this to happen by july of 2011, to begin to be a draw down, they can start drawing down in the provinces with less fighting and that is for the sort of appearance, the optics of a draw down and doesn't get to the core issue of how to control some of the most difficult areas and how to also cut deals with the taliban. >> real q...

Nobody has ever asked that. this is our livelihood, this is the place that we live, it's our home and we think it's a very special place and part of america, so we're going to keep going, one step at a time. vice president joe biden had a cautious response to questions today about the planned draw-down of u.s. troops in afghanistan next july. he previously predicted a lot of people moving out. those were his words by then. but says, that's not really a deadline. >> what i was talking about was, you have, we're going to have over 100,000 people there. >> more, right, if you include -- >> i'm ...

>> that is a cool event. one of the things we heard from vice president biden he didn't want to meddle in the affairs over there but clearly a big part of is this to give a push to iraqis to get this government on track, right? >> right. i mean, sort of an irony saying that the united states government doesn't want to meddle in iraqi affairs. the vice president is there under heavy security meeting with all of the top officials there. absolutely. trying to encourage them to put aside their differences. obviously, it is not politically based but religiously based between sunnis and shias and ot...

>> mika is angry and i understand your anger. >> wait a minute. >> as willie said, you invested a lot in this president. >> attack on the president is an attack on mika brzezinski. they are one and the same. >> exactly. >> tina mentioned it a moment ago. david petraeus, the general yesterday at a hearing for the armed services committeee fainteding in the middle of testimony. that's our man! >> our american hero. >> that's our man. >> stop this. >> don't do that! >> the 57-year-old was talking to senator john mccain talking about the draw-down in 2011 in afghanistan blaming jet lag and dehydra...