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Mission accomplished, which the president got heat for even saying? >> mission accomplished, absolutely. those missiles hit their targets. think about what happened, martha. here we were able to carry out a precise strike, literally over the heads of the russian forces in that area. the syrian air defenses were too afraid to activate them and use the full electronic capacity. they took unguided missile shots. britain and france and the u.s. created precision rubble out of what used to be a chemical weapons site. so absolutely, mission accomplished. a narrow set of objectives and we accomplishe...

Forces there with them? >> possibly. but let's -- when i left iraq in '09 -- >> possibly is not -- >> that's all i can give you. when i left iraq in '09 we had the war won. iraqi forces were actually acting pretty well. we had the military component figured out and whaten i was flying we were finding bad guys and doing mop-up operations. i went back just six months ago as a congressman and to see what happened there is disappointing. with iraqi forces, when we left in 201 1 maliki basically made the force a secular force for shias, had leadership folks that were in there that had no ability to...

Day in the near future when the iraqi forces would actually be capable of driving isis out without u.s. combat forces there with them? >> possibly but let's -- so when i left iraq in '09. >> possibly is not definitive. >> that's the best i can give you. when i left iraq in '09, we had the war won. iraqi forces were acting well. we had the military component figured out. when i was flying we were finding bad guys and doing mop-up operations. i went back six months ago as a congressman and to see what's happening there is disappointing. with iraqi forces look when we left in 2011 malaki made the...

Confident that defeating isis is truly possible? >> i do. and i think, again, the forces we saw the other day, again i was very impressed with the way they secured for the iraqi veterans out there, the old route tampa that went north out of baghdad all the way to mosul. they had that secured very well. now it's like a ghost town while we traveled north to tikrit, because really, everyone had moved out of the area. and we only saw a few shepherds along the way. but the iraqis have done a great job in securing it and right now they are trying to do mop up operations and take the rest of tikrit w...

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