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Not that it wasn't a worthy mission, but its doability in the context of the horrible setbacks. we have the people urinating on the dead taliban. you have the kill team. you have the koran burning. now we have had this. can we still win the minds and hearts as in-country allies of the government? >> that may be too ambitious, chris. i'm not going to claim we can do that. i would point out the iraqis were much angrier with us. they still put us in the 50% favorability range. that's not nearly what it was in 2001 and 2002 when they loved us, but there is a certain amount of common interest as we...

Doable. >> and that's my question. not that it wasn't a worthy mission, but its doability in the context of these horrible setbacks morally. we have the people urinating on those dead taliban. you have the kill team. you have the koran burning, and now you have this. can we still win the minds and hearts as in country allies of the government? >> that may be too ambitious, chris. and i'm not going to claim we can do that. i would point out the iraqis are much more angry with us, and we rated much more lower among the iraqis in '07/'08. who still put us up in the 40%, 50% favorability range. th...

>> that's my question. not that it wasn't a worthy mission, but its do blt in the context of the horrible setbacks. we have the people urinating on the dead taliban. you have the kill team. you have the koran burning. now we have had this. can we still win the minds and hearts as in-country allies of the government? >> that may be too ambitious, chris. i'm not going to claim we can do that. i would point out the iraqis were much angrier with us. they still put us in the 50% favorability range. that's not nearly what it was in 2001 and 2002 when they loved us, but there is a certain amount of c...