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Is we know exactly where those hardened artillery sights are we call thermal hart sights latitude longitude with gps we've ways of attacking sites you can imagine if five or six moabs were dropped in an area over there we had b-2s can drop 8500 -- bombs we can put a lot of firepower the readiness of those artillery sights don't fire aren't exercising them they have been there for years so there is a readiness issue. >> colonel hunt shaking your head 0 seconds. >> -- 30 seconds. >> every one we run 6 minute withed yes a lot of capabilities i get it but there are 6 minute issue, as soon as they ...

Did have, i can't go into detail, ways of identifying where the good guys were. reportedly, these guys have designators -- laser designators. our guys can hit with precision and efficiency. thereby taking that argument away. jon: just one point, apparently they did have a laser pointed at the enemy that was launching mortars. >> let's just take this whole thing together. jenna: we hear the news about senator mccain that bret baier shared with us. he felt these different people that could help or not ready to help. and there was a readiness issue as well. some of our viewers are asking the ques...

Say with this issue. you've got jobs and you've got readiness. so the readiness issue you folks have talked about quite a bit how it would change our readiness and our capability the jobs issue strikes me, when we talk about the fiscal cliff that could happen at the beginning of the next year, this is part of that because when you talk about companies including defense companies and some companies across the country who say they don't know what they're planning and you talk to the defense industry leaders they say the same thing to you, we don't know what this means for us and jobs right? >> t...

Have neo cons trashing ron paul because he's saying bring the troops home, in the last campaign and in this campaign, military members and their families gave easily more to ron than anybody else because they understand the strain better than some politician or somebody in a think tank in washington, d.c. that this is putting. it is a readiness issue. it's ever expanding. >> but at the same time, i think you have to give credit to president obama on this. he is drawing down. now, the question is, and lots of other republicans say he may be doing that too fast in iraq, that he needs some troops...

Majority of americans believe that it is time to end this incredibly irresponsible, incredibly expensive, hundreds of millions of dollars, 13,000 members of the armed forces ejected, which by the way means that someone has to take their place and serve even longer tours overseas in hostile environments. i believe very strongly it's time to end this policy. >> final thought, congressman hunter. we've got to go. >> yeah, it's one-half of 1% of all people that have been discharged in the last nine years, one-half of 1% of them have been discharged because they were homosexual. this is not a readi...