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Well, maybe there's another party to blame for the sad state of iraq and the region. >> what's happened in the middle east is in part the result of things we've done and things we haven't done like syria or libya. there's any number of acts of co-mission and omission which historians will take the united states and others to task for. what's missing is also local responsibility. this is a deeply floored part of the world. >> next from blame to credit. george w. bush's rightly lauded for the one, somewhat shining moment of hope in the entire iraq debacle. inside the surge when we come come on,w...

He had already done two long tours of duty in country. but what he sees this time around almost four years after the war started was disturbing and different. >> first day, full day in command was traveling around baghdad to see the situation there which frankly was really, really quite horrifying. i had known these neighborhoods as thriving, bustling prosperous areas, and in some cases, completely bloin. the people had moved out. in one case, it is almost metaphorical, because there was literally tumbleweed blowing down the empty road. >> the president had decided that iraq needed an influx o...

It was astounding. >> thank you for taking this honor. i'm proud of you. >> right away, within a few day s on the ground, bremer issued two o orders widely considered to be the most calamitous mistakes of the iraq war. >> they were disastrous. >> and the first was to bar all of saddam's baath party from holding the government skw jobs. >> the baathists who used their power to remove the iraqi people from office. and several hundred thousand iraqis who were the most advantaged and who had the best education, and all of these people lost their jobs. >> and then bremer fired saddam's army. a huge...