CNN The Situation Room June 12, 2014 22:18:00
Things were great and things would be fabulous after saddam hussein neither of those worked out. >> setting aside 2003, in the case of 2010, what i think the obama administration failed to recognize is they were and are a classic civil war. what happened in 2007, 2008, and 2009, the united states put a cast over iraq and held the bone together while it was healing. there was progress, but it wasn't nearly enough to be able to sustain itself without that cast of the united states. >> but you know this, you studied the history of this region. the hatered, the violence, it has been going on for h...