that s a behind sight play, by the way. i m not cheap shotting president bush cause i supported that war based upon the weapons of mass destruction. put your hands down. they re blocking my tie. based upon the weapons of mass destruction scenario laid out by colin powell who you don t get more credible than that man. i supported a war. in hindsight, most fair minded americans would say you got this guy out by doing a no fly and blockading the tiny area that he had access to the persian gulf, he could have starved him out of there. that s what you should have done rather than we invade the country. but in totality, our presidents and our people, because we elect the presidents, had to decide whether we were going to spend more than a trillion dollars. probably $3 trillion if you add on all the security that we have inside the united states. probable will he about $3 trillion. to protect ourselves after this terrible 9-11 attack. i say we did a pretty good job. i say the money was well
what should our next step in syria. doesn t embrace the arab spring and chinese communist dictatorship is not a fan of replacing other dictators. what should we do? we should be on the other side of history. arm the rebels and train them for a coalition of other countries arab countries turkey. we should be a part of a coalition of the willing to establish a no-fly, no drive zone to shield the people from the barbaric activity of assad. he is going to go. we should get to know the people who are going to replace him. we should be with them in their darkest hour rather than observing history. we should help mold history. the obama administration has played this very poorly. jenna: you said the obama administration has played this very poorly but do you think perhaps we re doing some of that covertly? no. i don t think we re doing enough. we don t need to be covert. the last thing in the world is america needs to do is hide from leadership. that is what drives me nuts.
russia shifts gears and shifts strategy and i think u.s. diplomacy obviously will be focused on trying to push the russians to a better and more productive position. up until now, that hasn t worked. lindsey graham is among the critics in the senate. he issued another statement today saying that it is imperative in light of the most recent wave of violence in syria that the united states begin to lead the international community to resolve the conflict. we need to form a coalition to help arm the rebels as well as create no-fly and no-drive zones to stop the slaughter by the assad regime. the obama administration, graham says, and the world at large is fiddling while syria burns. i hope we don t end up regretting our inaction. is that fair? would a no-fly zone help? should we be arming the rebels? i think the obama administration has two basic options now. the preferred option is what they re doing and they re right to do this, trying to convince the russians to shift their own str
through the lebanese syrian border is another. the notion of applying a no-fly, no drive, no move zone as we did in libya is a faris keyer proposition. and in the end nato is similar plea not going to go along. ult not be able to get a u.n. security council resolution, as the president got last time around with the acquiescence of the chinese and r upbgss who will not agree to a slippery slope with respect to military intervention. bashar al-assad is going down but there is no way to predict how long it will take. julie: when we entered libya the obama administration was criticized in getting involved in a civil war. here thousands of people have been killed in this country. again the obama administration seems to have put itself in the firing line, if you will over it s handling of the crisis in syria by not stopping this middle east country to being elected to a human rights committee. has the u.s. turned a blind eye to syria?
rules says joe paterno s football players got preference shl treatment because joe paterno demanded. she held the post from 2003 to 2007. in a statement to cnn, she says in part, over several years, there were numerous meetings and discussions about specific impending student discipline cases that involved football players. as a result, my staff and i felt compelled to alter how we handled cases involving penn state football players. the consequence of these accommodations put us in the position of treating football players more favorable than other students. joe paterno s lawyer says the claims are misleading and filled with inaccuracies. cnn has obtained a statement for air. we ll report that in a moment. all of this comes as pennsylvania s department of child and youth services is said to be investigating two new allegations of child sex abuse on the part of jerry sandusky. these are the first known cases involving alleged victims who are still underage. sandusky is fo