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Address these issues, but really speaking to the american people? >> well, and speaking to the world right now. this is all everybody's talking about. barack obama is in a very difficult situation. i think we have to see whether he believes his own show, his own war strategy here today. how much passion will he have in this presser. is he backing off a little bit. so far john kerry's been the prosecutor of the assad regime. barack obama's kind of middle-lined it a little bit. he's been at times passionate and at other times saying, look it, it's up to congress. so, i think it's very important ...

Mustard gas to stop an iranian incursion in northern iraq. by 1984, the iraqis moved past tear gas and mustard gas on the battlefield to become the first country anywhere in the world to use nerve gas in a combat situation on the battlefield. the details of those attacks are spelled out in great detail in recently declassified cia documented just been published by "foreign policy" magazine today. the cia knew all this was happening in iran and iraq as it was happening. "iraq had begun using nerve agents on the al basrah front. if iraq starts using nerve agents in large quantities, tehran will ...

Defense department was bloated adding quote the pentagon needs to be paired down. i don't think our military has looked at themselves strategically, critically in a long, long time. >> there's no reason why a secretary of defense should go into office thinking can't change anything can't cut anything. >> he has gone from being a war model fight it would go wars to a one-and a half war strategy under president obama given cuts over recent years. >> what everybody forgets is if we suddenly have a crisis in the gulf with iran, if we suddenly face a nuclear issue which forces us to deal with preve...

Able to fight two simultaneous wars to a 1-1/2 war strategy under president obama. given cuts in recent years. >> if we sudply have a crisis in the gulf with iran, if we sudply face a nuclear issue, which forces us to deal with preventative strikes we have a different military spending profile again. >> the u.s. army is preparing to eliminate two of the eight brigades in europe and may cut eight more brigades overall, reducing the army by 80,000 troops. hagel endorsed deep nuclear cuts backing a report by the group global zero calling for 80% reduction in the u.s. nuclear weapons arsenal that ...

Horizon. but is the media giving the administration's war strategy its due? we have liz here with her commentary. >> good morning. >> do you think the media is missing a story? >> the media dutifully covered the hearings this past week, two from the house on services committee and the senate on services committee. they heard the testimony of marine corp general john allen, the commander of our forces in afghanistan. he's the latest in a parade of gyms who have come up and said, we can do this thing, the mission can be a success. so there is a certain amount of wearyness in the coverage, as wel...