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Rallying cry? >> oh, absolutely because isis continued to take every single home and turn it into a fighting position. don't forget isis is to blame. isis came in and hijacked the people of mosul. i can't imagine any reasonable argument that anybody but isis is responsible for the vast destruction of mosul at this point. we applaud and we congratulate the iraqi security forces for coming back and returning mosul to the people. >> the iraqi prime minister was quick to come to mosul, wearing a military-style uniform and proudly announcing that from the heart of a free and liberated city, we anno...

Has very little regard for anybody who doesn't share their deformed world view. so anybody who is attempting to escape is not one of them. therefore, their life is meaningless. >> and civilians have been used as cover. recent reports have suggested that american air strikes indiscriminately killed civilians, but colonel work kept calling it precision fire. >> when you walk around the old city, it looks like the place was carpet bombed. how can you have so much precision fire and yet so much devastation? >> because the islamic state fighters who occupied those buildings took someone's home, too...

Was carpet bombed. how can you have so much precision fire and yet so much devastation? >> because the islamic state fighters who occupied those buildings took someone's home, took someone's school, and turned it into a fighting position. that's how that happens. it was precise. the strike hit exactly where it was supposed to. >> precision or not, the fact of the matter is that large parts of this city have been flattened by american munitions. we will never know how many people were killed by air strikes or iraqi soldiers or how many isis killed with explosives. what we do know is that this f...

Continued to take every single home and turn it into a fighting position. don't forget isis is to blame. isis came in and hijacked the people of mosul. i can't imagine any reasonable argument that anybody but isis is responsible for the vast destruction of mosul at this point. we applaud and we congratulate the iraqi security forces for coming back and returning mosul to the people. >> the iraqi prime minister was quick to come to mosul, wearing a military-style uniform and proudly announcing that from the heart of a free and liberated city, we announce absolute victory. but to call this a fre...

A few miles away in a control center, american and iraqi officers were watching the live feed from an overhead drone. they checked the coordinates -- >> the strike is southeast. >> -- deconflicted the airspace, and approved the attack. an aircraft delivered the payload on the mosque just 50 yards from our position. the major and his men moved a few steps forward. on the battlefield as mosul, that counted as a good day. >> are they going to be able to point to the debris of mosul and say, look what the americans and the shia government did to this sunni city and use it as a rallying cry? >> oh,...