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And i'm all for nation building, let's start with one called the united states. but what do we think that when we look at the bush doctrine, it adhered to the neo-conservative agenda, launch war, spread democracy to combat terrorism. unlaterally to pursue u.s. interests. when you enter the context of the bush doctrine, you see that chuck hagel who first supported the iraq mission, and then turned around in good conscience and said no, he made this statement in his book. i made myself a promise that if i ever get out of that place, he was talking about vietnam, if i ever got out of that place a...

Credit. and when you look at the fact that the numbers behind the afghanistan war is shocking, the cost of the war, $553.7 billion, dead, over 2,000, wounded, 17,000, 674, and still 66,000 troops there today. to start getting out of this early makes financial sense and it saves american lives. and as the congressman just said if we went in because of al-qaeda and osama bin laden, osama bin laden is no longer among the living. >> yes, that whole argument around costs was the argument that candidate obama made around the iraq war. he of course, campaigned saying that that was the dumb war, afgha...

Congressman, that we're looking at the emergence of the obama doctrine, the undoing of the bush doctrine? >> we are, reverend. and it is an historic day. and you know, rev, less than 1% of americans that served in iraq or afghanistan, most americans don't have skin in the game. and we all love the troops. but most americans don't know in the past year in afghanistan there have been 60 of our troops who have been killed on green on blue violence, murdered, basically, by afghan security forces. now is the time to bring these troops home. we're going to keep us very, very -- keep a very small foo...

Promise. this is chuck hagel in his book talking about his experiences in vietnam that led him to coming out in opposition as a republican, to the iraq war. don't you think that a lot of this opposition to hagel by some of the far right is that they're still angry at him that he came out against the iraqi war after it had started. and he had formerly supported it? >> i think there is certainly some truth to that. but what is interesting about that, i think in many ways, hagel's position, backing the war, backing funding of the war initially and then having further questions about it and critic...

Eight-year mess that was george w. bush's foreign policy. at the white house, he met with the president of afghanistan and made a big announcement. >> we achieved our central goal, which is, or have come very close to achieving our central goal, which is to decapacitate al-qaeda, to make sure they can't attack us again. by next year, 2014, the transition will be complete. afghans will have full responsibility for their security, and this war will come to a responsible end. >> yes, a reduced role for the u.s. troops will start this spring. at the more than 4,000 -- after more than 4,000 days of...