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Opened again but i was struck by how dove issuish this was. what were your thoughts? >> this is the foreign policy the president, that candidate obama always wanted to pursue. this was the outlines of what he described and what he campaigned on for six years and for six years he was a reluctant wartime president because of this situation in afghanistan and frankly wrap there was always a little bit of a rorschach test when it came to obama in '07 and '08. one of the ways that that would sort of paper over this of the idea that he didn't want to be viewed as simply an antiwar guy since he was a...

Mission in afghanistan, the president did not believe in it. it took him forever to make the decision. he got the surge troops in place, and the problem, according to gates, was that he campaigned on that being the good worth. campaigned on taking that war -- taking it back from the taliban, and then when he sat down and looked at it, he wasn't into it. so he sends these troops in with a date to pull out, much to the dismay and anger of general petraeus and then says i don't believe in the mission. guys like that try to complete the mission that the person who sent them in doesn't believe in. ...

But if mr. john mccain had his way, it would have been the united states doing that whole thing on his own. >> if it is our policy that moammar gadhafi must go, then it seems that some action must be taken. they are not a formidable force, we are the strongest nation in the world. we should be able to take care of their defenses as well as their air assets without too much difficulty. >> shouldn't be too much difficulty, so john mccain wars in georgia, russia, libya, anywhere else? senator, could have been president john mccain? >> some u.s. forces, approximately 20,000 should remain for a per...

Even though john mccain is not president. but if mr. john mccain had his way, it would have been the united states doing that whole thing on his own. >> if it is our policy that moammar gadhafi must go, then it seems that some action must be taken. they are not a formidable force, we are the strongest nation in the world. we should be able to take care of their defenses as well as their air assets without too much difficulty. >> shouldn't be too much difficulty, so john mccain wars in georgia, russia, libya, anywhere else? senator, could have been president john mccain? >> some u.s. forces, ap...

Troops. i've talked to senior officers who were concerned that the surge troops were pulled out during the fighting season and some of them saw that as a political move. so can you tell me, vice president biden, what was the military reason for bringing those surge troops home? >> the military reason -- by the way, when the president announced the surge, you'll remember, martha, he said the surge will be out by the end of the summer. the military said the surge will be out. nothing political about this. before the surge occurred. so you be a little straight with me here, too. before the surge ...