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And as being president, as you say, the world looks a lot different from the holiday inn in des moines than it does from the oval office, being president habeen forced, in his view, to use american military might more than he thought he ever would want to. >> let's bring in our senior white house correspondent jim acosta over at the white house right now. jim, was the speech that the president delivered from the oval office, was it what you expected based on your briefings going into the speech? >> reporter: absolutely. this was a war speech. this was a commander in chief speech delivered for ...

Summed it up it was kind of strange to see netanyahu making a war speech in front of our congress. so thank you so much the republicans. thank you. >> he's not the first. and democrats showed up too. >> you know what if you don't think that was remarkable and weird, i don't think you're being honest. i mean that just that was really difficult. that was strange. >> well -- >> everybody loves israel i get it, but you know what come on now. it was tough. >> can i speak? >> sure go ahead. what's your take? greatest thing you've ever seen. you know it was problematic. >> can i talk? i'm serious. >>...

Will explode. >> one thought here is that here have you john kerry i think very adeptly trying to put together the middle east peace initiative bringing in martin indeck in this. doing it quietly in that there have been no real leaks from the talks themselves, that piece is going on. there are overtures to and from iran. at the same time, there is a per ception that the president has bumbled what robert gibbs char itably called the sequencing of this. why give the war speech with kerry and the next day say you are going to against the advice and the only in of all of your advisers, political a...

People of america. >> reporter: president ease usually deliver the war speech after they've initiated military action. president reagan's invasion of grenada. >> we got there just in time. >> reporter: president obama toppling manuel noreaga. >> last night i ordered military forces to panama. >> reporter: the bombing in kosovo. >> today we joined our nato allies in air strikes. >> reporter: president george w. bush in iraq. tonight president obama will make the case for war before the first missile has flown. >> i think it's become a stopgap speech instead of a leadership speech. it seems like...

I thought the speech was muddled and unclear. hard to give a war speech about limits. subm i'm sympathetic about what they want to do. they are putting a thumb on the scale of a civil conflict between a dictator who stays in power with force and not much po popular support destabilizing the region and our values are with the rebels and interests are not just to stop gadhafi. even a stalemate he loses in the end. we have to align our policy to this amazing resurgence going on. the demographics align this in a meaningful way in a place to make a difference. >> in terms of war fatigue in the coun...