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Them an opportunity to say yes or no about sending our young men and women to die for oil. >> but it was wmd. it was on a lie. we were not 45 minutes from a mushroom cloud. but to sell the american people on this, to get our mitts on the oil, this was the sell job that had to be done, fair enough? >> this wouldn't be the first war, ed, and you know that. >> here's senator lindsey graham, again, talking about troop withdrawal. here it is. >> not being able to close the deal in iraq is a very serious mistake. celebrating leaving with no troops behind is a serious mistake. >> isn't this misleadin...

President, had been more transparent with the american people about this and had given them an opportunity to say yes or no about sending our young men and women to die for oil. >> but it was wmd. it was on a lie. we were not 45 minutes from a mushroom cloud. but to sell the american people on this, to get our mitts on the oil, this was the sell job that had to be done, fair enough? >> this wouldn't be the first war, ed, and you know that. >> here's senator lindsey graham, again, talking about troop withdrawal. here it is. >> not being able to close the deal in iraq is a very serious mistake. ...

Energy task force for the president, had been more transparent with the american people about this and had given them an opportunity to say yes or no about sending our young men and women to die for oil. >> but it was wmd. it was on a lie. we were not 45 minutes from a mushroom cloud. but to sell the american people on this, to get our mitts on the oil, this was the sell job that had to be done, fair enough? >> this wouldn't be the first war, ed, and you know that. >> here's senator lindsey graham, again, talking about troop withdrawal. here it is. >> not being able to close the deal in iraq i...

Nonmilitary presence say cia security contractors or others staying on? >> well, first of all,ç let's put it in a perspective. george bush, not barack obama signed a status of force as agreement where we committed to remove our troops by the end of 2011. president obama ran on that issue and reaffirmed that position in february of0b!mhh . this not a surprise. we do have interests in continuing securityç ties and training functions with the iraqis. significant diplomatic presence. forces, probably private contractors to protect our diplomatic missions and our diplomats and aide workers who...

Government hit an impasse. the issue of immunity was key, we're told, in terms of why the president and the pentagon cannot agree to keep those several thousand troops there without diplomatic immunity for those troops. we also have learned that there will be 16,000 people, civilians and security contractors, attached to the u.s. embassy after december 31st. that's the planning that is taking place. but the president will announce in just a few minutes when he speaks from the podium at the white house that all u.s. troops will be leaving, um, iraq at the end of this year. jon? jon: the pentago...