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mission accomplished, which the president got heat for even saying? mission accomplished, absolutely. those missiles hit their targets. think about what happened, martha. here we were able to carry out a precise strike, literally over the heads of the russian forces in that area. the syrian air defenses were too afraid to activate them and use the full electronic capacity. they took unguided missile shots. britain and france and the u.s. created precision rubble out of what used to be a chemical weapons site. so absolutely, mission accomplished. a narrow set of objectives and we accomplished them. martha: you said something interesting earlier. you said assad may stay in power in his corner, but this whole thing makes it looks like not such a great deal to be a russian ally. right. let s think about that map of syria. so we ve been doing the anti-isis mop-up operations in the northeast corner, part of
forces there with them? possibly. but let s when i left iraq in 09 possibly is not that s all i can give you. when i left iraq in 09 we had the war won. iraqi forces were actually acting pretty well. we had the military component figured out and whaten i was flying we were finding bad guys and doing mop-up operations. i went back just six months ago as a congressman and to see what happened there is disappointing. with iraqi forces, when we left in 201 1 maliki basically made the force a secular force for shias, had leadership folks that were in there that had no ability to lead troops. what happens is leadership melted away in the face of isis and as any low-level soldier is going to do if their leaders run, they re going to run too. it s because we didn t leave a residual force. i think a residual force was important but i think we lost the ability to influence the iraqi military and it became secular. then the question is can we get it back. the residual force
day in the near future when the iraqi forces would actually be capable of driving isis out without u.s. combat forces there with them? possibly but let s so when i left iraq in 09. possibly is not definitive. that s the best i can give you. when i left iraq in 09, we had the war won. iraqi forces were acting well. we had the military component figured out. when i was flying we were finding bad guys and doing mop-up operations. i went back six months ago as a congressman and to see what s happening there is disappointing. with iraqi forces look when we left in 2011 malaki made the force secular. they had leadership in there that had no ability to lead troops. leadership melted away in the face of isis. as any low level soldier is going to do it s because we didn t leave a residual force? i think that s important but we lost the ability to lead
confident that defeating isis is truly possible? i do. and i think, again, the forces we saw the other day, again i was very impressed with the way they secured for the iraqi veterans out there, the old route tampa that went north out of baghdad all the way to mosul. they had that secured very well. now it s like a ghost town while we traveled north to tikrit, because really, everyone had moved out of the area. and we only saw a few shepherds along the way. but the iraqis have done a great job in securing it and right now they are trying to do mop up operations and take the rest of tikrit which isis has pretty much left the foreign fighters and put the sniper teams out which will cause the iraqis to take time to clear the city which could take time. well, lieutenant colonel james reese, so appreciate your insight and service. take good care. thank you. still a lot of domestic news to tell you about the mayor of
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