some eyebrows. the movie is about people dealing with sex addiction. you can hardly have is a well clothed striptease. there you go. she looks fantastic. her and mer macrobiotic diet. i m mara ski yam po. way too early starts now. the boys over here thinks they can get conservatives like me to swallow their amnesty enchill laddo by including so-called security measures, other than known as a border surge. don t get me wrong, i like the idea of the surge. it worked in iraq. you hardly see any mexicans sneaking into baghdad. but it s not nearly enough, folks. this plan would merely double the border patrol with one agent every thousand feet. no, sir. we need them every three feet that way they can link arms and call out red rover red rover don t let francisco come over. no immigrants.
suggested if you showed up at the wrong precinct, you couldn t be told what was the right one to vote in. why are republicans attacking the labor-rich states. i have a theory that the labor movement in this country has tremendous infrastructure and they can get boots on the ground and has to put strength against strength to suppress the vote where the workers are. what do you think of that? i think it s an outrage for someone like myself who has flown into baghdad and watched the iraqis perform their own democracies in elections by dipping a finger in inc. and that is how they discounted fraud, they have this coordinated effort to push people away. the facts are that it was a razor-thin election and nearly 100,000 votes separated john kerry from becoming president and president bush being reelected. that s about ironically how many votes would be counted in the
over and out. the u.s. military lowers the flag in baghdad. the final u.s. troops leaving iraq with pride. and putting a fragile nation in the rear view mirror. breaking news for your paycheck. big compromise on capitol hill that could put $1,000 or more back into your paycheck next year. occupy gingrich. newt gets heckled by wall street protesters. they get it back on this american morning. good morning, everyone. it is thursday, december 15. welcome to american morning. good morning, carol. good morning, christine. good morning to all of you. it s over. minutes ago u.s. forces lowered the flag at baghdad and retired the colors to mark the end of the nearly nine-year iraq war. final few thousand u.s. troops are leaving iraq ahead of the new year s eve deadline to get out. it is a war that started with shocking and awe. today the departing soldiers are remembering more than 4,000 who did not come home alive. the long journey home. let s get to barbara starr. s
the war council roundtable. it was on nightly news yesterday. very interesting interview. the president showed such remarkable, such a class act. but president bush showed such remarkable restraint after sweeping through kuwait and calling off his generals who wanted to go into baghdad. he said pull back, we ve assembled the largest coalition in the history of mankind and we did it by making a promise and we re going to keep our promise. we re going to liberate kuwait and come home. that s leadership. yes. it s amazing to see all those men sitting together, really brings you back. also amazing to think back on how divisive that war in the senate was. it was a close vote in the senate to authorize that war. people think back on it now i m talking as far as the vote. right, correct. people think back on it now as a
the president went on to speak about afghanistan and then the u.s. economy and our u.s. service members who have served overseas and are coming home. sanjay gupta spent time in iraq on the ground, actually operating on some military personnel in the initial push into baghdad. he joins us tonight from pakistan where he s there to cover the floods. sanjay, i think back to your reporting on the initial push toward baghdad operating really on the front lines with the devil docs and others and what you saw on the battlefield, the casualties would have been even higher had it not been for the amazing advances in getting the injured off the battlefield in the golden hour much quicker. are we seeing different kinds of injuries and a lot more injuries than people normally would not have survived from? reporter: absolutely, anderson. this was a different sort of war from a medical standpoint because of the reasons you