none of this is new news. this hol tillty putin has had in terms of wanting to make sure that ukraine basically stayed within his sphere of power. the idea that the crimea invasion wasn t dealt with aggressively back then because any type of sanctions being sought back then were going to be a, quote, declaration of war as russia made it clear. clearly they re trying to make sure they re protected as well. russia wants to make sure that ukraine stays out of nato. so the fact that the united stations is having this u.s.-led resolution. we have 87 supporters to this resolution right now. the only abstentions come from china, the united arab emirates and india. that s not a surprise at this point in time. i think you will hear a message of solidarity tomorrow. i think you will hear a lot of very pointed, not so vailed comments and some vitreal directed towards russia and the
are surrounded by most certain danger. they performed amazing every single time we were fighting the enemy. brian: they say that about war that you have got to adapt. you could have had the best plan but everything changes as soon as the first shots are fired. it really happened here. the invasion was perfect. the post invasion wasn t. and you got the worst nightmare that happened. had you to have urban warfare. you guys had to learn on the fly in the beginning it wasn t working. so you adapted, you changed and you won. what is that like? well, i don t think there was ever a metric of success where they say hey, scott, did you win or loads? i get that question a lot. brian: you could say that you suppressed the city. absolutely. if there are bad guys that killed my marines absolutely effective, that s what they do. in that picture you that you have. i ordered my marines that day before we were thrust into that sea of ramadi. i had to order my men to kill because i never wanted them
ugliness in the partisan effort to put the hell of isis entirely on the shoulders of president obama. it s as if the u.s. invasion of iraq, which broke that country apart, had nothing to do with today s iraqi turmoil. an invasion bush and cheney sold with the now provenly bogus claim that saddam hussein had nuclear weapons and a connection to 9/11. watching the republicans contort themselves in this effort is to watch them prance in front of funhouse mirror. one group says that reality doesn t matter. it doesn t matter that their claims of a nuclear iraq or an al qaeda-connected iraq were bogus. the u.s. invasion wasn t to end the idea, they say, even if it s left over $4,000 americans and over 100,000 iraqis dead. another group says that now, because the case made for the u.s. invasion was bogus, you can t blame the people who came up with those bogus claims. i know. this is hard to follow. a third group is similar to the first. it says, okay, we should have never invaded iraq, but it
and in this really high-profile incident, she s being fed private intelligence cables by him. that s just different than, i think, the way that most intelligence is supposed to move. it s supposed intelligence is vetted, there s a whole system that was created after 9/11, to make sure that principles get stuff that all different parts of the government have looked at. this was different. yeah, but it turned out to be accurate. actually, it didn t. parts of it turned out to be accurate. ultimately, there was no protest. and ultimately, the narrative from the government is that it wasn t something that had been planned for a month. it was something that had been planned for a few days. so this certainly shows the type of confusion and the type of information that was flowing in. yeah, i just don t see the nefarious aspect of this yet. again, you re seeing the sort of thing that comes out. the worst sources of intelligence, the better.
would hold it together. now, prime minister maliki and others made some big mistakes thereafter, and i think president obama was wrong to pull out u.s. troops. but it wasn t going to be easy to stay, and obama did keep forces there for twice as long as he had promised on the campaign trail, along the time frame that president bush himself had sketched out. i would give president obama some criticism there, but not nearly as harsh as so the criticism you leveled at obama is that he followed out the bush plan? well, apparently. he had his own choice, but, yes, it was the logic that had been established before. mr. obama deserves some of the criticism, but not nearly as much as he s getting now. okay, mike, my problem with that argument is you can always say, if we d only stayed a little longer. you can always argue, if we d only stay there had with more troops, more combat troops in the field, you can always argue, but that s the best argument for not going in, because you can ne