move on this. by the way, anybody check with the american people on more intervention in iraq? the reason why we didn t leave troops behind is because president obama could not get the agreement with maliki. maliki came to congress and said bush signed the exit agreement and you re going to live by it. he also would not give our soldiers immunity on the ground. god forbid there s a shooting match and our soldiers are held up in an iraqi court going through a judicial system. no, president obama wasn t going to go along with that. maliki wouldn t go along with it either and now we have no agreement. the conservatives think it s easy to cut a deal with these folks. we won t be a target anymore. more troopsz and more money and more treasure from the american familiar lies across this count that s the key, get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight s question, are you prepared to send your kid to
is saying that this is the staging ground for the next 9/11. is that fear mongering or is that the truth? that s fear mongering. it has may have some pieces of truth in it that we ve created an area of turmoil in which these kinds of things are going to spring. but we will only make it worse by getting in there and trying to kill this one and kill that one. we re going to kill a lot of collateral damage as we did in iraq. we ll make more and more people angry at us and we simply cannot solve these things with military power. it s going to take diplomacy. maliki has to go and assad has to go. how we get that to happen? we ve got to get the russians and iranians and everybody together. if we want peace in the area, that s the only way it s going to occur. otherwise you re going to have all of these people killing one another and we ll look like fools. we ve already spent trillions of dollars in this war. we do not need to spend anymore.
soldiers were lost. 11 years later, and iraq is still what? struggling. is that obama s fault? is that our fault? can they not fight for themselves? iraq is still struggling because a guy named maliki, he s a new dictator. he has not been inclusive and he is the root of the problem but conservatives won t tell you that. the militant group isis has taken control of cities throughout iraq, baghdad is still under control of the iraqi government. but this has got civil war written all over it. is it our fight again? this has republicans in the united states doing what they do so well, they are trashing president obama and calling for military action in iraq. michigan congressman mike rogers seems to be warming up for his talk radio career and scaring america about another attack. this is an al qaeda inspired group that certainly has al qaeda ties that now has the
iraq? text a for yes, b for no. i ll be podcasting about this again tomorrow. we ll bring you results later on in the show. for more, let me bring in jim mcdermott of washington. jim, good to have you with us tonight. you were there when the vote took place years ago to go into iraq. why do i feel like we re seeing an instant replay from republicans on this? i want your nouts on what s unfolding. well, ed, is really is a replay exactly as you ve said it. the same propaganda being pushed on us now was pushed on us then. it was a mistake then. we lost 4,000 people. lots and lots of injured people. mayhem all over the country, a terrible mess. we installed a dictator named maliki. now the people in iraq told me when i was over there before that started, this is between