them back. in a humane way, you are not going you say walk through mexico he. 8-year-old kid back? well, you are going to have people with them. i don t care if you have to have nurses and doctors and counselors, but when the buses start returning and return the children to the parents, world will be word will be out that it s not working. i guarantee you the wave will stop. let me turn to iraq. the president says 300 advisors. good idea? bad idea? indifferent? what? what is he doing is preparing the ground for the advisors and t most important element is intelligence to use our air assets if there is an emergency. if the bad guys start heading into baghdad, heading for the green zone, our embassy, then he will have the intelligence, he will have. so you support this? it s a minimal step. is he not engaging. it s not going to make any difference now. it s a contingent step to have us ready in an emergency. but the most important stuff is behind the scenes. the most impo
tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 so you can take charge of your trading. welcome back to cnn s continuing coverage of the crisis in iraq. we are expecting president obama any minute to come to the podium to make his announcement about what he intends to do about the crisis in iraq, whether or not he will be sending any troops, special operations or otherwise, into baghdad. i m joined here in the studio with gloria borger and chief foreign affairs correspondent for time magazine michael crowley. there is a lot of discomfort i would imagine in the white house right now because michael, president obama is where he is, in no small way, because he opposed sending troops to iraq back in 2003. yeah. it s just a terrible irony that must be incredibly personally
in a humane way, you are not going you say walk through mexico he. 8-year-old kid back? well, you are going to have people with them. i don t care if you have to have nurses and doctors and counselors, but when the buses start returning and return the children to the parents, world will be word will be out that it s not working. i guarantee you the wave will stop. let me turn to iraq. the president says 300 advisors. good idea? bad idea? indifferent? what? what is he doing is preparing the ground for the advisors and the most important element is intelligence to use our air assets if there is an emergency. if the bad guys start heading into baghdad, heading for the green zone, our embassy, then he will have the intelligence, he will have. so you support this? it s a minimal step. is he not engaging. it s not going to make any difference now. it s a contingent step to have us ready in an emergency. but the most important stuff is behind the scenes. the most important stu
ministry. the perception that the u.s. has launched a war for oil is further stoked when the u.s. army s 101st airborne division crosses the bored near iraq and establishes two refueling stations in the iraqi desert. the army names the two desert outposts after exxon and shell, unbeknownst to the companies themselves. presumably, some kell nell in the planning cell thought that this would be an easy designation for american soldiers, you know, flying helicopters through dust storms to bear in mind and to find on a map, but it did kind of undermine the pr campaign. as coalition forces rolled into baghdad and topple saddam, the general selected by the pentagon to stabilize the situation and quickly turn over power to the iraqis finds that his mission has changed. i did not want to slip from liberation into occupation. i thought that s the worst thing to do my understanding from rumsfeld, from the white house,
crosses the boarder into iraq and establishes the refueling stations in the iraqi desert. the army names the two desert outposts after exxon and shell, unbeknownst to the companies themselves. presumably some colonel in the planning cell thought that this would be an easy designation for american soldiers, you know, flying helicopters through dust storms to bear in mind and to find on a map, but it did kind of undermine the pr campaign. as coalition forces rolled into baghdad and topple saddam, the general selected by the pentagon to stabilize the situation and quickly turn over power to the iraqis finds that his mission has changed. i did not want to slip from liberation into occupation. i thought that s the worst thing to do. my understanding from rumsfeld, from the white house, from everywhere, that we were going to go in there and we were going to set up an interim government as rapid as we could,