Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100901:10:23:00
Get a cessation for a while of violence. but they were right in the end. it did not -- look at the government in iraq. you have a rosy picture of it. there isn't one. so the surge did not produce the political progress that everybody hoped for. >> but the sunnis, as robert gibbs said, the sunnis are involved in politics today and involved in the political process today and they were rejectionists in iraq and the sunni aweakening happens in part because we had the resources on the ground but the sunni leaders and our military in general petraeus said it had begun on its own but if we didn't pro...