northeastern caribbean, many of the small islands battered. you can see branches down, trees down, trees are snapped all across the island. there was a curfew put in overnight because of downed wire lines and trees. many airlines smutting down shutting down, many airports shutting down. what was the surprise was how big the storm developed and how quickly. it went from a category 2 to 4 storm quickly. you had people getting on planes to come on vacation to the caribbean who were worried about a tropical storm warning, now the difficult is getting phones on and electricity on and get out of here before the next one comes down the pipe. back to you. jon: thank you, steve. jenna: earl may seem far away right now. it s going to take a couple of days to get closer to the united
iraqi institutions that are in the country to be able to do it themselves. jenna: minali, what does the president s message need to be to the iraqi people? i think the most important thing to assure the iraqi people is that the relationship is not over. iraqis are very keen to maintain their relationship with the u.s. and i think it s important we demonstrate that we re still in a long term commitment to see iraq succeed succeed. jenna: larry, one of the issues tackled in the editorials this morning is whether or not president obama will mention president george w. bush in his speech? what do you think? should he bring up the former president? if he does i think he ought to say this was the greatest strategic blunder in the history of the united states, because what it did was prevent us from achieving our objectives in afghanistan, it undermined our military effectiveness, it undermined our reputation in the world, it brought out brought al-qaeda into iraq, which was not there
house and it reveals the president s favorite quote, among them, one from martin luther king, jr. ag the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice. that s one of the new additions. you can see that bowl of apples. the president is known to like m & ms. don t know if we ll see any of those. jon: i don t know if he s a pacer, but he can pace around that rug and read the quotes. jenna: right, there you go! jon: there are new developments to share with you regarding that terror bust in amsterdam, what we know about the suspicious items that these two men from yemen were carrying in their luggage when they got off this plane and what the fbi is saying now.
say the replacement of saddam and the overthrow of the regime is worth it, others say that security, access to health, education, is the true indicator and that still hasn t happened. jenna: colonel schafer, that s an interesting perspective and bringing in larry s as well because there s been a lot of talk about the surge in iraq. as that being one of the greatest achievements by president george w. bush, actually securing the area, making the area better for our troops, as well as the country. again, larry calls that one of the greatest strategic blunders, us going into iraq, one of our greatest strategic blunders. do you agree wa that? i tend to agree with larry. i was an intelligent director and the intelligence was hor id, just wrong, and i think we did a lot of things based on very flawed assumptions based on that intelligence. with that said, though, we have been able to recover greatly from those initial flaws. for better or worse, we have met the military objectives outlined
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