asked about the future of the drone campaign to iran. will the operations continue since they are flown out of afghanistan? absolutely. on wednesday, in kabul, panetta meets president hamid karzai who is coming under pressure from tehran to close the base. but the defense secretary says the afghan leader has not asked them to halt the program. panetta would not speculate about whether the u.s. u.s. sentinel drone had been failed by cyber attack or high-tech jamming device. the secretary did not agree with the assessment of nouri al-maliki in monday suggesting irainian interference would disappear once all u.s. troops have gone home. i think you have to be cautious about iran that one way or another they will try to influence what happens there.
rescue workers used everything from their hands to shovels to cranes, to reach trapped survivors crying out for help amid the rubble. a reporter in van describes the scene there. let me tell you, it s really, really cold, it s zero celsius degrees, literally freezing. and there s no electricity in most of the city. no natural gas. i mean the survivors are now trying to survive the cold weather at the same time. turkey is especially vulnerable to earthquakes because it sits on major geological fault lines. an autopsy confirms that moammar gadhafi died if a gunshot wound to the head. the following images are very graphic. what doctors didn t reveal is whether the ousted libyan leader was shot in a cross-fire or killed by rebel who is captured him last thursday. the u.n. is calling for an investigation into his death. meanwhile people lined up over the weekend to view his corpse. the family wants his woddy handed over. as the international community asks more questions,
peanuts 700 million over five years. the list goes on and on. that s the waste. we haven t even gotten to the fraud which is another issue we hear about fraud and i go back to the 52 million to the afghan leader, i don t know if that is our money. how is the obama administration, have they shown vigor and zeal to go after waste and fraud? not yet. we haven t soon a veto of any appropriations bills. he a chance in 2009, a huge omnibus bill in 2009 he covey towed and he said no. probably another omnibus bill in a week or so that he can veto but he probably won t. he has offered spending cuts greta: how about fraud? does the bush administration vigorously go after fraud? is theyd:aox obama administratin vigorously again after fraud?
of our country. i want to ask you finally this is a bigger topic than we can get into all the details of. i want to ask you about afghanistan, the president visiting the troops there, a surprise visit. when we talk about our goals, all the concerns about hamid karzai, the afghan leader, corruptions and so forth, it takes me back to a famous moment before you were senator, april 1971 when you said this on capitol hill about vietnam. how do you ask a man to be the last man to die from a state? my question to you is you look at the landscape of our withdrawal plans in 2014. is it a mistake in afghanistan to think, asked to be the last to die in a war that may not be able to achieve the results that we have laid out for us? first of all, i looked at that and said, boy, he needs a haircut. look, in my judgment, afghanistan is just not vietnam. we shouldn t have been in
on the inside of something where it has great ability to undo our ability to protect the interest of our country. i want to ask you finally this is a bigger topic than we can get into all the details of. i want to ask you about afghanistan, the president visiting the troops there, a surprise visit. when we talk about our goals, all the concerns about hamid karzai, the afghan leader, corruptions and so forth, it takes me back to a famous moment before you were senator, april 1971 when you said this on capitol hill about vietnam. how do you ask a man to be the last man to die from a state? my question to you is you look at the landscape of our withdrawal plans in 2014. is it a mistake in afghanistan to think, asked to be the last to die in a war that may not be able to achieve the results that we have laid out for us? first of all, i looked at that and said, boy, he needs a haircut. look, in my judgment,