transition, the one part of the president s speech i really, really liked. i thought overall it was a great performance but this part that when the first lady came out and introduced him, i mean, she had a really good understanding of the unemployment challenges the veterans will face. she really understood the role that military families took in thanking him and the president said that your sacrifice, you know, isn t going to be forgotten and you re going to get when you earned, when he said you earned it. that s true. a lot of republicans, 25 of them in the u.s. senate, voted against the new g.i. bill. 15% unemployment, no better thing than we can do is get the people skills to be employable. they are saying you earned these these things in our society. earned the right to go to college and the fact that the president said they earned it, probably the nicest thing that i ve heard since i came home because we ve earned our place in society. to said least. you ll get the last word
over the walter reid scandal? no generals or civilians were ever held accountable for what was possibly the greatest foreign policy disas it every all time so i think keep taking care of the vets but hold the folks in d.c. accountable for their decisions. yeah, and that s a critical distinction that we got backwards out of vietnam, holding soldiers to account for policy. we now have an opportunity to help our soldiers heal and welcome you home and listen to you, hear your stories. i would love to hear your stories and ultimately then turn our attention appropriately at the policy making body. john, once again welcome home. matt, it s a pleasure. this conversation is one we ll be continuing for a long time to come, i m afraid. matt and john. coming up here on the d.r. show, all we want is a congress that works. new poll slapping the title with the worst congress ever. and they are living up to it yet again today. plus, the sheriff of wall
rifle anymore, which in this kind of warfare is just not possible, particularly when you don t understand the root causes of the conflict, particularly when those legitimate political grievances that many members of the insurgency have are not addressed. and that has nothing to do with transnational groups like al qaeda. i think for folk to hold onto this, stay there nine or ten years, it is this devotion to this war that they believe in. i don t understand it, but we certainly have people here in the united states that want to be part of a decades along war that want to be part of a clash of cultures or a clash of civilizations and then other aspects too, thereth is big money, dylan. you know that you knee pro-war community, pro-development community, fear inc., as it is called, make a lot of money off this war and it s so that certainly can t be pushed to the side either. yeah. yeah. well, matt, i hope through the
president let someone publish a book revealing his skepticism in the middle of a hot war in which american troops are currently being killed under his command? joining us now matt ho, director of the afghanistan study group and former state department official. your views on this book, matt? one echo, what you just said, dylan. since that clip of president obama last december 1st we have had 372 american service members killed in afghanistan and thousands more wounded, both physically as well as mental wounds. you can t see and they are certainly affecting them and their families. the fact the president is skeptical, wasn t sure about it whose advisers clearly failed him. he has come ton assessment n a new york times article today, general luke, president bush s
efforts and those like you and those that watch this program and my efforts and anybody else s we can end this war and begin the actual process of securing this country and investing in this country and not indulging the fear amongers and the yippee kiyay crowd by shooting people they don t know halfway around the world. matt, a pleasure. real quick, dylan. yeah. it goes back to those lance corporals and specialists in afghanistan right now them deserve much better leadership than what is being shown here in terms of their leadership in washington, d.c. i wish we could say that to every single american in this country today because i think it is a humiliation for this country to have a president with a hot war, active soldiers and portrayed and allowing himself to be portrayed with this level of skepticism. my heart goes out to the families of those whose children are involved with this. thank you, as always. thank you. after the break here, we will have more on what bob wo