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Tomahawks overnight and the cost for the war keeps mounting suggesting the pentagon may need to ask for a war supplemental from congress. the cost to date $240 million for tomahawks missile. $31 million for the f-15 jet that crashed. u.s. officials say gaddafi and his forces are still not in compliance with the u.n. security council resolution and must pull out of three cities including adjabia. >> we told them it's a withdrawal. establish water, electricity and gas supplies all areas and allow humanitarian assistance then the fighting would stop and our job would be over. >> reporter: with ga...

Unnecessary war, afghanistan was where the taliban was, that's whe the attacks on 9/11 were emanateing emanateing, and that's where we -- emanating from and that's where we needed to be. it was easy to paint a picture that they were for military action when necessary and that should be the focus and now that that's done, now that bush is gone, they don't have the same motivation to keep support for the afghanistan war going. bill: in a bigger sense, though, nancy pelosi did not speak on behalf of it, not a single democratic leader spoke up. if you're a democratic president in the white house, ...

>> reporter: i think that's right, and the question is, in the place where you would have a debate reignited is in congress and robert gibbs was asked about this today and he basically, he brought up the fact that david obie, chairman of the house appropriations committee, long-time democrat, he's actually retiring this year was already saying publicly that he was voting against this war supplemental which is for funding for the war and the new strategy in afghanistan, also for some funding in iraq and so what the white house is trying to say is, look, nothing has changed here, we know there a...

Left for this town to do anything. >> he's got a closing window of opportunity. they have their august break. they want to take it. they have to run for re-election. he's going to look at energy and figure out what he's going to do on energy. there's big sticking points about whether you have a carbon tax. i think it's something you have to do. >> short term, this white house is going to beat up on the republicans about not extending the unemployment. >> they will eventually get that. the other thing is the war supplemental. >> big deal. >> it hasn't gotten done yet. if they want to go home fo...

What we were told by general mcchrystal and what he said about marjah being a bleeding ulcer, and we had reports that the afghans, what they were supposed to do did not happen. these congressmen passed the war supplemental, so i think there is a gap between what general petraeus is saying and what is happening on the ground. he is going to do a great job in afghanistan for us. >> there is no argument that marjah is better than it was five years ago, given three years ago. marjah is better and it did not work out the way we planned it. and the reason is mcchrystal did not kill enough bad guys. ...