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Democracy. we have paid too high a price to give the iraqis this chance. and i hope that iran and no one else miscalculates that. >> well, and i want to just underline that. there's a feeling that iran could try to push iraq around, particularly in the shia part of the southern part of iraq. are you suggesting that if iran were to try to take advantage at this moment, the u.s. would still have a military commitment, the message to iran being what? >> well, i think iran should look at the region. we may not be leaving military bases in iraq, but we have bases elsewhere. we have support and trai...

100,000 strong, and now this additional commitment of u.s. troops, not troops but u.s. assets, in libya. how does the president, speaking to the nation monday night, maintain a sense of national purpose here at a time when we're so stretched? >> actually, your list was incomplete. we have a substantial military commitment and humanitarian assistance disaster relief in japan as well, largely using naval forces. the air forces that we are using for the most part and the air forces in particular we're using in libya are forces normally stationed in europe in any event. the reality is, though, beg...

Expecting the big leader, himself, moammar gadhafi to show up. the red carpet went out four hours ago. the rumors went out flying, you can imagine, that he was coming to address this issue. that's also speculation, but we're still waiting for him to show up. andr andrea? >> jim maceda on base there in tripo tripoli. thank you very much, jim. with us now, virginia democratic senator jim webb, member of the senate armed services committee who participated in the hearing earlier today with the navy. thank you so much, senator, for joining us. from what you're hearing from the military, do you t...

On those troops in bolstering national security here at home, we would be safer. i again want to stress, even if people want to stay in afghanistan, and i think that it is time to withdraw, there are tens and tens of billions of dollars being spent in military scenarios that have nothing to do with afghanistan, nothing to do with terrorism. i wish we could defeat them with nuclear submarines, because we have all the nuclear submarines. the major part of our weapon spending and our military commitment overseas has nothing to do with terrorism and little to do with making us safer. >> we're only...