lives lost were not squandered and iraq doesn't return to its old was ways and have a different arab iraq in the middle east. >> i think what is missing or when win or victory what about future context? what is the plan going forward? there are two scenarios for iraq. an independent iraq either swallowed up by iran or the iranians feel so abandoned and so isolated they build a huge saddam like army which is as one general has said it will not only be able to play home games and play away games, too. not only to defend iraq but an offensive force in the region. we have to provide the iraqis with real security guarantees they don't need to do that, we will play some sort of role but to do that would conflict with obama's intense fidelity to this withdrawal schedule and indicating some sort of flexibility that if the context requires it, we will be back in some way and we will have