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is it not time, after nearly 10 years of british deployment in afghanistan, that the whole strategy should be reconsidered? last year, 1,000 afghan people died, and 300 and more british soldiers have lost their lives in afghanistan, as have many from other coalition forces. opinion polls in afghanistan show declining support for western involvement there. if british troops are going to remain there for another five years, how many more are going to die, how much deeper is the civil war going to get and how much deeper are we going to be involved in conflicts in that region? is it not...

archives. website wikileaks released secret classified military documents on the afghanistan war. three news organizations initially got the information from wikileaks, including "the new york times." we would like your reaction to this this morning. you can also find as online, journal@c-span.org and r twitter handle this twitter.com/c-span- wj. we are also on facebook. let us look at the shtick -- piece. "the new york times" reports the documents attached a war hamstrung by that afghan government, police force and army of questionable loyalty and confidence. jumping down in this st...

the system and now are retired. -- now i'm retired. [unintelligible] i have no more copayment. host: talking about copayments with insurance. guest: fortunately, i have the luxury of not following the health care bill. and we were busy working on the financial reform bill. i am hopeful, along with everyone else in the country, that the health insurance reform will be beneficial. i do not know how it is going to plan and, to pay out, but we can keep our fingers crossed. . . guest: here is where you spread the jobs around some more people have more jobs and benefits and get the economy...

interested -- if someone were to call me and asked me if i were interested in being the public editor or ombudsman, how would i respond. i said, i would be interested in talking about that. >> why would you be interested at that time? >> well, being an ombudsman is a difficult but intriguing job. it was before i had run. "the new york times" is kind of the pinnacle of the newspaper profession, i believe. i thought it was an unusual opportunity and i was interested in it. >> what happened next? >> what happened next is there were a couple of phone calls about it. then, my wife and i w...

well. it's an unfortunate thing in my opinion that we can't get things going with one single subject but that's the way it . . caller: i was a democrat and i participated in the blogs. i used to correspond until i could no longer deny that hatred and censorship of people who might be democrats who would have a disagreement and be shouted down. but disrespected because they didn't tow the party line. i would like to disagree with what you said about the town hall meetings because out here in michigan, we had a lot of people wanting to attend but were denied town hall meetings. i follo...