his administration. that is, before this week. it s time now for our sunday panel, brit hume, julie pace, who covers the white house for the george will, syndicated columnist, and former democratic congresswoman jane harvin. i want to pick up on my conversation with congressman chairman rogers. president obama is the president i don t think you kshgs and i don t think the objective is as the president veryset forth, while it will b it would be nice and come about in time to say the increasingly dire military situation inside iraq but it could be that the city of baghdad will not fall but it is
was in iraq and participated . thank you is part of the revolutionary force. iran has been in iraq for years and we know their capabilities. it is a mistake. it mean as failure of united states leadership if we cannot put the arab league together to fight the problem they know is in their best interests and the united states best interests to stop the al-qaeda ride. as chairman of house of representatives intelligentsia what your best information? are they continuing to advance? have the shiite militias called by the grand ayatollah to fight a holy war against the sunnis, have they blunted the advance? is baghdad vulnerable? baghdad is vulnerable but it appears they have halted the attack on baghdad and now they trying to consolidate their wins in mosul and build in the defenses. they are doing it by shear
review go on in this isn t about protecting iraq but protecting the united states. the argument is, it doesn t matter what happens to baghdad, you cannot allow this state, this terrorists stated in the anything east. it is much worse than the al-qaeda and afghanistan. whatever the president does will not be framed as united states effort to try to help the iraqis it will be framed as an effort to try to protect american interests both in the region and eventally the homeland because they say the group could strengthen and attack the homeland. in remain toes of timelines it is interesting because on friday there was a lot of talk about we will have to make a decision in days because of the gravity of the situation and you hear at the pentagon and from intelligence acknowledges that they simply do not have a plan yet, if you were to launch airstrikes it is unclear what we would hit so there will be a longer process to figure out what the plan would look like if you take that action.
right now in diyala province just to the north of baghdad, they re about 60 kilometers away from the capital, battling with iraqi security forces, who in one town in that area made a gruesome discovery, saying they found the bodies of 12 police officers who had been shot and then burned. those bodies were found in an orchard. they suspect that isis was behind this, but they say the investigation is still ongoing. isis also advancing on baghdad again from the north, but this time further to the west of diyala seeming to advance on the capital from two different directions. quik remarkable when one thing the entire advance by isis only begaen on tuesday, so in favor days i m covered significant territory. hey, a. what, i understand
war grows. conor powell has the latest. we re watching iraq splinter before our very guys as the country divides along ethnic and religious lines. and iran seems poised to jump into the conflict. today the iranian president says his country is ready to help. iraq s prime minister, nuri al maliki, is shiite and maintains strong ties with neighboring iran. many sunnis feel marginalized by the shiite-dominated government in baghdad. and a large sunni population in the western part of the country opening its arms to the isis group. they control fallujah, mosul, tikrit and only 60 miles outside of baghdad, their advance across iraq has slowed somewhat today. but baghdad is preparing for an assault. thousands of young iraqi shia