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In the process isis fighters are saying if the siege is in mosul come on in as quickly as you can. right now they're counting 2,000 fighters in mosul. it will be much more than that by the time an offensive commences. remember the battle of fallujah so difficult for u.s. marines and soldiers america's most fearsome fighting force? there were 2,000 enemy in that city to expect the iraqi army to be capable and with nine months of training i hope they can get there. but military planners realize sustained logistics to push all the way up from baghdad, into mosul, coordinate with the kurds without...

The -- the west has a thousand-year war with islam is islam was ever expanding. when islam began to contract it collapsed. and the caliphate was eliminated. now they've established a caliphate. they are dead serious about expanding it. unless we begin to take back that ground and make this caliphate, you know irrelevant in the eyes of the muslim world or the radical muslim world we are going to have a bigger and bigger problem. so the key is to act promptly and to make sure that america is involved. we have to have -- i said today in my speech here at cpac we could put forth 10,000 troops in a...

Christians and muslims who oppose isis as well as jews. this is a caliphate that is being -- has been established. and that means they are as pete said, calling people from all over the world to come and fight this battle. as long as they hold ground, as long as they can continue to expand that ground, more and more will come. the fact that we are delaying means that the caliphate continues to exist. they're not losing ground. they're not being discredited in the eyes of the muslim world. they will get stronger. this is an urgent need to take on isis to get them out of mosul and do it immediat...

Few days, perhaps advising, perhaps planning more. no one knows for sure. arwa damon is in the kurdish area of iraq. you're in one of the places where the iraqi military says things are okay, and that is because of the kurdish fighters, not the types who are down weapons and uniforms and flee. what is happening outside of the kurdish area, though? >> reporter: well, michael, the minute you leave the border of the autonomous region of iraqi kurdistan you effectively enter territory controlled by isis or its allies or where additional troops have been deployed to kirkuk to prevent isis and the o...