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Live devices can be used in a very open area that is completely ungoverned. it certainly is an opportunity to learn more lessones before they enact those and strie to take some, what i would call, a very dangerous step as it is to vis-a-vis the united states. >> all right. well said. general marks, another question for you. you aqap considers airline secure ate weak spot. after a decade, how can this still be a weakness? rs. >> it still is a niche. our relationships with others overseas, we establish various standards. agree internationally to what they look like. and the united states has a h...

Providing a top level command and control element into the very highest levels at the iraqi joint chiefs of staff. >> general marks, appreciate you being on. jim chuas well. what are you hearing? you've been talking to sourlsesn the ground. what have you been hearing about the confidence they have in nuri al-maliki. >> confidence is low. they don't believe even in his party with people in conversation with him, they don't think nuri al-maliki, the decisions some people consider further alienated sunni politicians here. there are politicians that just don't feel that they can work with him, the...

Not to have boots on the ground but in the embassy compound where there are already 200 some odd advisors that act in a similar capacity, bolstering that capacity and the other component, flights and we're told those flights have begun. so flying over those isis positions getting intelligence that the u.s. can share with the iraqi side and possibly use if the president decides to launch missings or bombing missions over those sites, as well. >> general marks, the fact that this target list is being put together and refined as events change on the ground, there are flights, that might sound lik...

They went in there. you know, halliburton got $7 billion in no-bid contracts before they went in. i mean, it's either they didn't know what they were doing or they did it out of greed. and i'm not saying greed is a bad thing. but i mean, that's what's happened here, i think. >> general marks, let me read part of the op-ed here and let you respond. he says, "rarely has a u.s. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many. too many times to count mr. obama has told us he is ending the wars in iraq and afghanistan as though wishing made it so. his rhetoric has now come crashing ...

That are on the ground. i mean, the 300 some odd forces that were put on the ground a couple days ago, really have a couple missions, one of them is the non-combatant evacuation possibility and also, the advisory role, which has everything to do with targeting. so the united states in concert with the iraqis in the sanction wary of either the iraqi joint chief staff command center or embassy where we have a large down linked capability where the intelligence capabilities can come into an intelligence center where all of that can be fused, so that we can hand off targeting data to the iraqis so...