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Do to achieve our results. nobody wants to face up to that. there's really no vital national security interest at stake on the ground in iraq. there's a long-term interest, but not one that we could get support from the american people. >> and for you, michael, specifically about the issue of iran. all of a sudden, we have the u.s. and iran who in some ways share a desire to see a stronger government there. iran clearly would like to prop up maliki. we'd like to see a more unified government there. what role will they play and what will our intersection be with them? >> we won't be work with t...

Becoming -- >> what is the difference? >> president obama doesn't have these military advisers in to prop up maliki's government. >> but they are there at minimum to do counterterrorism which is fine. >> right. >> i think the big question mark over their role is how much are they there to work with the iran yaz and iraqis to keep iraq intact and that issue did not emerge clearly from yesterday's press conference. i do not think it's any more in the interest of the united states to do that. the days of an attack -- >> to do what? >> keep iraq as a single nation state. i think that has been ecli...

Third term. now, however, there are many people, even within his own party and certainly from outside his party, who are saying we have to put together a new government anyway. perhaps we can do it without maliki at the top. maliki, however, doesn't want to give up his power so there are a lot of closed door negotiations. but for the first time in iraq, we are hearing a lot of -- for the first time in iraq recently, we are hearing a lot of very open criticism of maliki, including from members of his own alliance. >> richard engel reporting from baghdad, iraq. be safe, richard. nice to visit wi...

Ominous thing to say when this is a group that cut's people's heads off to settle scores. the latest intelligence we've been receiving from sources that are familiar with the movement, some inside the movement, that they are probably waiting, accumulating some of their weapons, accumulating in numbers, they want to get military advice from former bath party officials and then we'll try and assault the city. but it might not be like a leningrad style fighting, baghdad is very divided and half of the city is sunni -- and the iraqi forces haven't been willing to fight and haven't been willing to ...