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Large. their leader, their top bomb maker, the guy most responsible for the new generations of underwear bombs. they're still at large. and we should note that the war against the al qaeda and arabian peninsula is not just a drone war. u.s. special operations forces based out of -- bases or at least kind of forward operating positions in the arabian peninsula have been working with yemeni special forces with saudi special forces among others to conduct attacks against some of those targets. so it's a combination of drone warfare as well as more conventional or at least special operations boots...

>> bobby, the administration has done a lot of drones. when it comes to finding aqap, it's been a drone war, pure and simple. some intelligence on the ground, some working with the yemen government but it's mostly been a drone war. a question, has it been successful? i look at the statistics. aqap deaths as it's been reported in operatives aqap, 169, 81 in 2011. you've got to ask yourself if the drone war has been targeting these people and they seem as operational as ever. is this a success or not. >> the administration's response would be if it hadn't been for these attacks, things would be ...

Attention span. sometimes we've proven that we do. but with the cumulative effect of all this, is it time, does the white house think, to say something? >> depends on how much he cares about these programs. if they are as important as he says they are, he needs to come out in short order, own them, brand them and say this is me and it's necessary. if he doesn't, if he does what they've done on the war in afghanistan that has come to a very sad end and other initiatives, the drone war and other things, if he does that and lets the republicans fight it out amongst themselves and for them to be t...

More open minded. what do you want to do? >> i want us to drive on something other than oil products. we need to be able to tell opec much of which is based in the middle east that we do not have to keep shipping money in order to drive or cars and our trucks. >> you say we can't kill them but we can bankrupt them. >> i am suggesting what we need to do is take away the power of monopoly that less oil dominate transportation at 96, 97 percent. that would indirectly encourage people like the saudis and others to work for a living rather than lifting oil for $2 a barrel and selling it to us for 1...

President obama because the story was leaked to the "the washington post." that's why they got their nose in a twist there the "new york times" is constantly being surprised that barack obama is not really a liberal. may have campaigned as a liberal and may have been a liberal as united states senator state senator or community organizer. is he really kind of a middle of the road guy look, he has waged this relentless drone war. he has he opposed it or did not push for single pair in the obama administration. now you can see he has sanctioned this widespread snooping under thetriot act. fully ...