i m going to fight. the stuff, the brouhaha over mcchrystal supposedly pressuring him to add troops he made clear in the campaign he wanted to win this war. secondly, the white house now has the problem with this deadline. the next july deadline hanging around his neck, as he tries to distance himself from it. much as the guantanamo bay deadline around his neck. and has come and gone. come and gone. now we have petraeus back in the saddle and i think it will make the deadline more problematic because he has the gold standard general running that war. if he is going to want more time and more troops, that is going to be something that i think the president will say yes to and will put him at odds with a big punch of his party. the republicans should do the honorable thing, what is good for the country and help president obama win the war. he ll have to win it, unfortunately, over the
to barack obama when he passionately, when he was running for president passionately supported the war to win, and and told his party this is the war i ll fight. and through all that, the brouhaha over general stanley mcchrystal, supposedly pressuring him to add troops, he made clear in the campaign he wanted to win the war. and, secondly, the white house now hayes problem with the deadline, next july deadline is hanging around his neck as, he tries to distance himself from the president, like the guantanamo bay deadline hanged around his neck come and gone. and now petraeus is back in the saddle and will make the deadline more problematic. he has the gold standard general running the war and he ll want more time and more troops and that is going to be something that i think is the president will say yes to and will put him at odds with a big bunch of his party. senator. supported by republicans and the republicans know he s doing
i m going to fight. the stuff, the brouhaha over mcchrystal supposedly pressuring him to add troops he made clear in the campaign he wanted to win this war. secondly, the white house now has the problem with this deadline. the next july deadline hanging around his neck, as he tries to distance himself from it. much as the guantanamo bay deadline around his neck. and has come and gone. come and gone. now we have petraeus back in the saddle and i think it will make the deadline more problematic because he has the gold standard general running that war. if he is going to want more time and more troops, that is going to be something that i think the president will say yes to and will put him at odds with a big punch of his party. the republicans should do the honorable thing, what is good for the country and help president obama win the war. he ll have to win it,
dick cheney has. this was the debate for years. barack obama came into office, one controversial thing he did was add troops to afghanistan did a surge now doing a drawdown. it says something to me really rotten about the core of the credibility of the republican party that they can t deal with any of that actual up and down troop factual history. and have to instead pretend winding this down after 13 years, much longer than world war ii is an automatic loss. it is weird to think of wins, losses to begin with. part of the structural problem of how war is conceived of. i think it is note worthiy to me. dick cheney felt he had to run to the cameras to defend the legacy of dick cheney. not a lot of people are. he was there, aside from john mccain, lindsay graham statement, you would program a macro on your microsoft word, to issue, there isn t a ton of
it s, centered in the white house. as mr. cheney said there, you can rely on that assessment because it is based on his experience. that experience of course led hem to say this to bob schaeffer? do you think it will be a long war or short war? based on my time as secretary of defense, i m confident that the troops will be successful and it will go relatively quickly. there is possibility of complications you can t anticipate. ginning me, chris hayes and alex wagner. good evening to you both. chris, i want to start here and try to take this seriously at first. whatever credibility problems dick cheney has. this was the debate for years. barack obama came into office, one controversial thing he did was add troops to afghanistan did a surge now doing a drawdown. it says something to me really