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Ramadi had the advantage 10-1 were not under any direct fire but regardless they tucked tail and ran. the chairman of the joint chiefs general dempsey saying the iraqis weren't driven out ramadi. they drove out of ramadi. president obama echoing commanders in the military downplaying what ramadi means to the coalition claiming this loss a tech tickle setback. the commander in chief fervent the u.s. is not losing this war, but on capitol hill today alarm bells, louder and louder as battlefield overs acknowledge that isis' goal of establishing a so-called islamic caliphate may already be the hor...

>> fall of ramadi exposed a weakness of the current iraq strategy. >> reporter: this morning the senate armed services committee heard the hard truth. >> this is a group of unfathomable evil and unfortunately, they are extremely effective. ♪ >> reporter: expert voices in the national security community say it's time to stop saying isis wants to establish an islamic caliphate and time to acknowledge it already has. >> isis is very professional very organized, has created successfully an islamic state. admit it. they run three or four city probably have 2 million people under their control. >>...

Forces in ramadi 10-1 and the iraqi forces were not under fire when they fled. is there any battlefield rationale that could explain their leaving ramadi? the iraqi forces? >> it's leadership and will to fight. saw it with the french in 1940. they ran, outnumbered the germans 10-1 and the germans got through their lines very very quickly. that's the whole idea of putting advisers side-by-side combat-hardened american captains not many of them that will keep them when in the middle of the fight things look so desperate, that young captain can say, colonel, don't worry. we're going to get throug...

Straight to it. >> reporter: bush secretary of defense seems to have a take. >> a lot of american blood sthed in ramadi. to have it in the hands of isis is hard to characterize other than a major setback. >> reporter: president obama is trying to do just that calling the victory a mere tactical setback. in an interview with jeffrey goldberg today. here are the facts. in just over a year isis planted its infamous black flag acrossever-expanding territory. in iraq fallujah mosul, second largest city and this week ramadi, a key staging ground to take baghdad, which is fewer than 70 miles away. â™...