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Which he said the government of nuri al maliki needs to get together now that they've had parliamentary elections, form a new government, but also said what the u.s. won't and will do in iraq. let's listen to a little bit of the president. >> rather than try to make whack-a-mole wherever these terrorist organizations may pop up, what we have to do is to by able to build effective partnerships, make sure that they have capacity. >> so goldy, the idea, i moon, for the united states public now, we're back in iraq in a very small way. there are some people who feel it's too small. what is your rea...

Got a country that is a place where terrorists can fester and grow and be nurtured. inside a chaotic iraq, you have others in the region who feed off of that instability. so you've got to be very, very careful about how you support and be more thoughtful about it. >> we have a response, too, with what the president had to say today from congressman ed royce, the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee. this is a statement he issued. he said the plan the president announced today in response to the rapid terrorist response in iraq underestimates the seriousness of steps needed, but fall...

For it. currently, the iraqi army is not. one of the reasons they're not is because they're totally and completely disaffected from their government in baghdad, al maliki. that's got to change and that's why there's talk about somebody other than al maliki. but we're not going to select him. somebody has to pop up among the political apparatus in iraq. otherwise, you're not going to get the army to fight for baghdad if they don't believe in whoever is running baghdad. >> yeah. and goldy, i think that's what gets to the frustration. we spent $20 billion training the iraqi army. we spent nearly ...

Do you think that's helpful? >> if there's a political lick to get in, certainly you can count on republicans to pass it. at the end of the day, we have to make a more thoughtful approach this time going on in. if that includes military strikes, drone strikes, air strikes, if it includes that, then the president must indeed come back and make that case. they're fighting in our name and on our behalf. we don't frankly have the intelligence today. we cannot rely on iraqi intelligence to guide our air strikes, to guide whether or not we may use drone forces. we simply don't have it. we have to ge...