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Holes there and a disaster. we ended up getting our marines blown up. in this case, the only thing we can do is push maliki and use the leverage -- >> but maliki can't be pushed. no. we tried to push maliki. obama tried to push maliki. the generals tried to push maliki. even when we were there with tens of thousands of troops, maliki still was a bad actor so that is not a solution. what we do if that doesn't work? >> maliki fought the shia death squads in 2007 and 2008. i would not have intervened in 2010 and say maliki to help win re-election but that is second-guessing but the no the case we...

Through iraqi air space to syria to plop up bashir al asside. there are reasons for concern. >> you also account -- recount how this administration tried to sort of push maliki aside, they did not trust maliki? >> what's interesting about the obama administration, is they had policy goals in iraq which were unstated. i mean officially they tell the american people, the dwool is to get all the troops out. behind closed doors, they actually tried to do a lot of political engineering in iraq. they tried to shape the iraqi government, explored an alternative to maliki and then tried to create a po...