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National government with a truly national army in afghanistan and get the heck home. >> that's almost exactly the point that i made more than a year ago, and i wrote an article also in the "washington post" where i laid out four different concerns. and those two were principal among them. this may be a time, as you actually said in the lead-in, this may be the time to shake the jar and figure out what is actually doable, not simply in the time period now into '11, but as a nation. we aren't very good nation builders. we should be trying to fit in the war against international terrorism and hop...

Is this time for a council of war? is this time to review what we can get done in afghanistan before we leave? no republican that i know of says stay there permanently. >> i think you're right. the accident in the "rolling stone" article and the signing in of petraeus, cho is a much more aware guy, will lead to if not a war council by name, it's going to be an ongoing review of everything we're doing there over the next few weeks and months. >> let me ask you the question i put to senator webb. who is running this country? he's ceo. he's the boss. but every organization you get a sense of how ...

Shut down debate on a bad bill with a filibuster, right? no, that is not right at all. enter a little parliamentary device known as reconciliation, also called... the nuclear option. so named, because it used the minority, in this case the republicans, will declare and all-out war of mutually assured destruction, to pass health care it will be a flurry of measures, ping-ponging back and forth between the house and senate, as twaes pointed out, brilliantly in the youtube video, a past budget reconciliation measure took 70 hours of debate and though that is light of time on the legislative clock...

And, you know, the military commissions act was improved last year, it was modified from the previous bill we passed, and it was designed specifically to try these individuals who are housed at guantanamo as well as other individuals that are captured on the battlefield. you know, why in the world do we want to bring these five individuals to new york city, give them constitutional rights that are guaranteed to american citizens versus trying individuals in the future that will be captured on the battlefield and bringing them in to be tried at guantanamo under the military commissions act? mak...

Tack on the first available thing that comes to the door. we know the jobs bill could be coming shortly as they call it, so that's a possibility. one very interesting thing, the fact that we're talking about senator webb being on board with this, a former navy secretary, a very important person to have, also members of the armed services committee, to have to -- to have him on board is a big plus as they move forward. jane: exactly what are they asking for? >> this group a few days ago put a letter together to attorney general eric holder to say we remain opposed to the idea of bringing people...