president, it was interesting and perhaps even wise to know the president the sources are saying, listen, boots on the ground is not an option. they ve made that at least clear before talking about the other options. well, look, there s a few things we got to remember legally. legally there is still a war authorization that is active that congress passed that does give the president a lot of leeway to do whatever he wants in iraq frankly. at this point when it comes to military issues. this isn t a case where he necessarily needs to go to congress to make some decision on various aspects that he does. now, that doesn t mean preliminarily he may decide like he did with syria that he doesn t want to go off on this political limb alone. thgs what makes this harder, the lack of political will in the country that is going to support this. our last polling on iraq, 60% of the country said the war wasn t even worth it. people didn t believe the war is worth it, are they going to
was ayman mohyeldin who reported what was happening there. and it is even bizarre of what is happening here, is that the same insurgents in the syria and the iraq militants and we want iran s help in iraq or iraq wants iran s help, but only to the point, because iran is on the other side of the conflict as far as the united states is concern concerned with what is going on inside of syria, and so it is look, this is a 1,000-year religion-war between shia and sunni and the borders be damned. and we will weigh in with jim mi miklaszewski. and you are hearing that it may be the worst best scenario to hear that drons could be used by
defend the country. that perhaps give the greatest indication that this violence that is spreading across iraq is falling more and more along the sectarian lines and taking a dangerous turn between the sunni community and the shiite community on the other and that is one of the reasons that iran is very vested in this, because they are a backer of the maliki government and the shiite government in iraq for several year years. and according to latest information the insurgents are 40 miles from baghdad. do we know of any contingency plans to evacuate the u.s. embassy in the heart of baghdad and it is the largest embassy in the world? well, there is no doubt that those plans are definitely already in play or at least have been in play for some time. there is no way that a city like baghdad with all of the security r risks that it faces on the daily basis would not have a contingency plan in the works and the fact that you could see some of the al qaeda militant-linked militants in th
certain amount of coordination that you wouldn t have here. they would have to rely in large part even though they have their own overhead surveillance, they would have to rely in large part on the iraqi government itself and we re told by senior officials, we don t trust the iraqi government to give us the right target sets. so this is a very complicated situation for the military. can they carry it out? sure. but they want to carry it out precisely with as little collateral damage, i.e. innocent civilian casualties as possible. mik, to your point, to the question of do we have a partner and leader in government we can trust, which were the very same questions asked regarding afghanistan and the developments there? in this case, the history between the u.s. fost and iraqi government is pretty much well known. but currently, you know, the
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