Or military court . Plus, love and death love on death row. He faced execution for the horrific west memphis child murders. Now he is free and rebuilding his life with the woman who he fell in love with while he was still behind bars. Damian echols and laurie davis they will their story. Tweet us using the askdon. Dick cheney in an oped today in the wall street journal blasts president obama for, get this, his handling of iraq. Thats right. Pop, meet kettle. Cheney, one of the architects of the iraq war, a crucial part of the team who got the u. S. Into this mess in the first place, says this rarely has a u. S. President been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many. This from the man who helped use faulty intelligence. Remember . Weapons of mass destruction . None found. Miscalculated the cost of the war. Part of it, they said, paid for by iraqs oil revenues. Never happened. And misjudged just how long the conflict would last. Quote, dick cheney back in 2003, i think it will g
will that the military there, one, more loyal to the government and also the city of iraq, very much a majority shia city, because of those advantages it will be unlikely that isis can move through there. certainly not nearly as quickly as they did through the northern part of the country. the impression being that that gives the administration and others time to figure out what s the best next step. jim sciutto, thank you. anderson, thank you as well. make sure you stay safe in iraq. joining me now is jessica lewis, a research director for the institute for the study of war. she was stationed in iraq for 15 ms. as a u.s. army intelligence officer. u.s. general james spider marks. michael waltz is a senior national security fellow of the new america foundation and a former special adviser on counterterrorism to vice president dick cheney. and also nina burr lee, who covered the middle east and the president s foreign policy for rolling stone. thank you all for joining us this eve
administration, is that the political leadership in iraq is not equipped to pull the country together. you re an expert in this area. is that an accurate assessment? i think it s a very fair concern, that we don t just face a threat from i.s.i.s., this former al qaeda group that is gaining territory in iraq and syria. iraq may very well now be in a sectarian civil war, which was the object of this group to create the circumstance in iraq because it s what provides best for their islamic state ultimately. but there is a big question in my mind as to whether or not the sunnis in northern iraq are ever going to stand with maliki again. the question too is how this has become so politicized. it s very politicized. nina, i want you to listen to what glenn beck had to say today, and then we ll talk. they said we couldn t force freedom on people. you know what? let me lead with my mistakes. you re right. liberals, you were right.