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In iraq will definitely be home for the holidays. >> president obama's announcement today comes as he indicated nearly nine years after president george w. bush announced the invasion of iraq. >> the people of the united states and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder. we will meet that threat now with our army, air force, navy, coast guard and marines so that we do not have to meet it later with armies of firefighters and police and doctors on the streets of our cities. now that conflict has come, the only w...

Peace with weapons of mass murder. we will meet that threat now with our army, air force, navy, coast guard and marines so that we do not have to meet it later with armies of firefighters and police and doctors on the streets of our cities. now that conflict has come, the only way to limit its duration is to apply decisive force. i assure you, this will not be a campaign of half measures and we will accept no outcome but victory. >> that was george bush announcing the beginning of the iraq war, 8, 8 1/2 years ago. it already has this bizarre jarring antique quality like it is from another era,...

Very few supplies coming in. no matter, no electricity. the troops are running out of ammunition. i would estimate it is only a mary of time before that city collapses. >> greta: so gadhafi wins? >> gadhafi wins in misrata. things are not looking better in the rest of the country. i said before, -- napoleon said wars aren't won by half measures. we should be in or out. right now it looks as if the british, french and the italians are trying to carry on this war. as it it doesn't look good for the rebels. >> greta: on march 28th, the president spoke to the nation. he said two things about the w...

More hawkish argument, regime change argument in the other. saying we reject both those, taking the middle path. the fact is he opened political attack from both ends. there will be republicans that say we never should have done this, like mccain, for instance, and there will be a lot more if this goes poorly. then there will be republicans that say we're doing half measures, we need to lead. we shouldn't take second seat to france, et cetera. so there's both of those in the republican camps. there are plausible attacks from both sides of the middle path the president sketched out in the speec...

Change argument in the other. saying we reject both those, taking the middle path. the fact is he opened political attack from both ends. there will be republicans that say we never should have done this, like mccain, for instance, and there will be a lot more if this goes poorly. then there will be republicans that say we're doing half measures, we need to lead. we shouldn't take second seat to france, et cetera. so there's both of those in the republican camps. there are plausible attacks from >> do you think anything happened in the speech to effect substantively this debate about the presi...