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Little bit earlier as a result. >> 7,000 injured and killed in this war. nine years later, a person who is not reliable as the president of that country. h this refocus the attention and the white house, the american people start having a real conversation about this war? >> i think that it will. i think there's a perception among many of us that there's absolutely no light at the end of the tunnel despite the eight, nine, ten years that we've been involved in this. and what's significant to me is that the writer of the "rolling stone" piece, mr. hastings himself is quoted as saying in news we...

Volunteer force, we know they said i'll raise my hand and do this. and mothers, fathers, brother, sisters, sons and daughterses. they're the best team we've ever fielded. so this is about them. their ranks could increase before they decrease. it's a heck of a place to wage war especially if it's not your environment. and general petraeus goes in knowing the grounds. knowing the individual commanders, knowing the units there, knowing the challenge. and he's not -- he is a realist. he has indicated to intimates of his i don't see how this ends in afghanistan. i just don't see the end of this sto...

Around the war there, the situation on the ground was different, there was a civil war under way. he had the undivided attention and a very large budget given to him by the bush administration. will he have that same sort of access to the president? he certainly had it today. will that access to the president continue? one of the frustrations is that he doesn't have that kind of access. >> is there any indication that he would not? as we talked about this importance of this war not just for this country forks this president, he's committed more treasure, more lives to this effort, when he was ...

Commander of our forces in afghanistan. that's a judgment the president made. it was also speaking to the fact that general mccaffrey just alluded it, you've got a poisoned inner agency process. which sounds like a lot of washington speak, but it's important baut way that everybody works together frrks the state department to the defense department to inside the white house matters. the bush administration had a broken interagency process with regard to the invasion and the immediate post war period in iraq. ultimately some of that got sorted out. a lot of people feel way too late. vice presid...

In. no one redistripre-difficulted on what this would evolve to. the administration was lied to by bp. first they said there wasn't that much coming out and it grew as the days went on. and i thought the proper reaction was there by the president. so i think he's being wrongly criticized for it. the president goes out and gets $20 billion from a company that's butchering our environment and the republicans are criticizing him for it. i find it absolutely amazing. it just goes to show how divided we are in this country. >> and let me bring up something the president said regarding the rans six ...