soldiers to fight. and this is a consequence of terrible mismanagement of the government and corruption by maliki and we obviously are paying a very heavy price for that. nor john mccain today. ken pollack, recently returned from baghdad, was there in spring and met with u.s. and iraqi officials including maliki and served as cia military analyst and national security council under president clinton. thank you. you have a good sense of where maliki is. is he going to change and do the things now that he resistded for all of these years in terms of sunni rivals? i m pretty pessimistic about it. when i saw him last, he was looking forward to a big electoral victory and didn t seem to want to use it to reach his opponents and wanted to do things his way.
of his current team, and then he called the security situation in iraq now, quote, the greatest threat since the cold war. john mccain has identified a lot of greatest threats since the cold war. this is the current one for him. the new york times today, apparently, with no self-consciousness about it whatsoever, went back to this guy for quotes about not just how terrible it is in iraq right now, but specifically how terrible it is that the obama administration is not sending the u.s. military back into iraq. the guy s name is ken pollack, kenneth pollack. he authored this book you might remember, from 2002, the threatening storm, the case for invading iraq. ken pollack was a leading mouthpiece for the bogus iraq weapons of mass destruction claim. that was part of his argument. the other part of his claim for why we should invade iraq was that invading iraq was going to be super easy and super cheap. listen to how this guy sold it. look. in purely economic terms, it is states would
would have to contribute even tens of billions of dollars. he said, those who argue that the united states would inevitably become the target of unhappy iraqis generally also assume that the iraqi population would be hostile to u.s. forces from the outset. however, the best evidence we have suggests that the iraqi people would be pleased to be liberated. he was basically the captain of team wrong in 2002, ken pollack. but incredibly, today, the new york times goes back to him as an iraq expert, specifically to get his views on why it s so awful that the obama administration is not putting the u.s. military back into iraq again. these pictures were taken the day before yesterday in mosul, showing some of the aftermath of the sunni militants taking over that city. you see on the ground there, on the median there, that s that s clothing. those are iraqi army uniforms that were stripped off by members of the iraqi military. they stripped their uniforms off, left them on the street,
old iraq war days to replace all of his current team, and he called the security situation in iraq now, quote, the greatest threat since the cold war. john mccain has identified a lot of greatest threats since the cold war. this is the current one for him. the new york times today, apparently, with no self-consciousness about it whatsoever, went back to this guy for quotes about not just how terrible it is in iraq right now, but specifically about how terrible it is that the obama administration is not sending the u.s. military back into iraq. the guy s name is ken pollack, kenneth pollack. he authored this book you might remember, from 2002, the threatening storm, the case for invading iraq. ken pollack was a leading mouth piece for the bogus iraq weapons of mass destruction claim. the other part of his claim for why we should invade iraq was that invading iraq was going to be super easy and super cheap. listen to how this guy sold it. look. in purely economic terms, it is
couple of minutes. after a couple of minutes, he walked out of the briefing in order to go get back out in front of the cameras, where he demanded the resignation of president obama s entire national security team, announced who president obama should hire back from the good old iraq war days to replace all of his current team, and he called the security situation in iraq now, quote, the greatest threat since the cold war. john mccain has identified a lot of greatest threats since the cold war. this is the current one for him. the new york times today, apparently, with no self-consciousness about it whatsoever, went back to this guy for quotes about not just how terrible it is in iraq right now, but specifically about how terrible it is that the obama administration is not sending the u.s. military back into iraq. the guy s name is ken pollack, kenneth pollack. he authored this book you might remember, from 2002, the threatening storm, the case for invading iraq. ken pollack was a le