substantial amount of money up front. those are facts. and yet absolutely. raising questions about seems to be taken as lunacy. what do you think of that? well i think he loses credibility with the american people. everything you laid out, then they get to keep their intercontinental ballistic missile program, the arms embargo is going to go oh by the way, iran is going to become the dominant power in the middle east. that s ultimately going to be bad for a fight against isis. guess what neil these sunni arabs in places like al anbar province in iraq if they see iran as the dominant power, they re going to be much more likely to want to join isis. so i think we re unwittingly also fuelling more people to join the ranks of the premiere sunni terrorist group isis. so there are so many things that are problematic with it. to not even engage in debate i think is a sign of weakness. that is one reason why i think there is the chance to override the veto.
general marks 100%. iraq will break up. nothing we can do to hold it together. giving weapons to the shia militias which we re not, but the iraqi army is primarily show yashgs the ones fighting and frankly they have no will to go into the sunni areas to keep the peace to get rid of isis. they re saying if you want isis you live with it but we re not going to die for you. a lot of army people have died today around hab ba nia and other places so i just don t see the iraqi army ever going into the sunni heartland, al anbar province or retaking mosul. it s not going to happen and the fact is ash carter is right, there isn t the will to do it and i don t think we can create that will. general marks you look at the map we had up and you can see baghdad is so close to these sunni areas where isis is supported, where isis has taken control. are you confident that baghdad
closer to baghdad and despite victories in towns barely an hour s drive from iraq s capital, some in baghdad say the city isn t in danger of falling but, of course as you can imagine residents there are very much on edge and in a country that is weary from years of war and blood shed the story of one photographer may say it best his livelihood used to be weddings and now it s documenting the dead. arwa damon has his story. reporter: the shop promotes its expertise anin encapsulating joyous moments. but it s been two months since such a job has come through. he shows us pulling up the bulk of the business immortalizing the dead. since the occupation until now, but essentially now after isis came into iraq and now into anbar, he says demand is increasing. he rarely knows the details of how or where they died, but the
that don t represent islam in the least, says this man. all you have to do now is say isis has entered and it will create panic and chaos. many believe baghdad won t fall to isis not because of the capabilities of the iraqi security forces but rather because of iraq s powerful neighbor iran. the security reality and the regional interests dictate that iran be involved. retired officer explains. iran is heavily involved not just backing the popular mobilization units, a predominantly shia military force, but also with its own set of advisors and other assets on the ground. and those units are active op the front lines in sunni anbar province and around ramadi. none of it an ideal situation given iraq s pensions for sectarian violence but it s the nation s only option. especially when it comes to protecting the capital.
when they ve destroyed artifacts in nimrud and a syrian site near mosul and in iraq so there s concern they could do this again. but above all, isis wants to get money for these kind of artifacts. they will be looking to raise money from overseas to sell some of these artifacts they re able to get their hands on in the city. but there s also a lot of concern that now they ve taken control of palmyra be they have a stronger support base in syria along the syria/iraq border to send fighters weapons, supplies into iraq to reinforce in anbar province and areas around ramadi real concern they will be able to use the supply lines to consolidate their position in al anbar. if they are using the supply lines, michael, and you look at really the just perilous state of ramadi at this point, shia militias massing outside the