that we ve seen work against iran to deter them from building a nuclear weapon. or when we follow the finance trail with respect to how some of these terrorists are financing their situation. actionable intelligence in particular is so incredible before we go in and send our military. do you think we re missing actionable intelligence in iraq? we are missing actionable intelligence for the very reason that my colleague said, that we moved out and we don t necessarily have everything that we know that we used to have on the ground. we need to go in and figure out real fast what s going on. real fast. it should have been january. hopefully not too late. always nice when the milk is spilt and said we shouldn t have spilt the milk. we want you at home to weigh in on today s fireback question. should the u.s. send military advisers to iraq? tweet and we ll have results after the break. we also have our outrages of the day. and today stephanie and i stand
vote on how they would interact in this and every single time that these sentcom commanders who were running the show out there. would come before the committee and i would ask them what are you doing about article 140, what are you doing about unification, your know what their answer was? they would say god, congresswoman you ve gotten to the meat of this thing and it s very difficult to do and we re going to get to this. and we left without ever having gotten to the real thing that we needed to do there. and that was, to work and making sure we left a government that was unifying the people. not pulling them apart. you pulled all your troops out. we pulled our troops out because there was no agreement. we re going to come back to this. after a quick break. next some advice to the would-be republican presidents who think they can do a better job than president obama. but first, today s crossfire quiz, when was nuri al maliki named as iraq s prime minister? was in t in 2006, 2007
loretta sanchez, a california democrat and representative anna kinninger. an illinois republican. will u.s. advisers make a difference or draw america closer to war. tonight on crossfire. welcome to crossfire i m stephanie cutter. and i m s.e. kup on the right. two members of congress, today president obama spent more time talking about what we aren t going to do in iraq. and why. than he did making a case that the terrorist takeover of the levant has serious implications for us at home. how sad, george w. bush may still in the white house because president obama can t seem to make any foreign policy decisions without thinking of him first, he often explains his inaction by way of his predeceasedpr predeceaspr predeceaspr
fallujah, we feel like we ve been taken off guard and there s an oh my goodness, isis exists in iraq. it s existed for a long time. i agree with the initial steps, but meanwhile you have this blitzkrieg by isis that s going on, taking on city after city, beheading people and krauting their jihadist state. i think air strikes would stop the move of isis in the town. the problem is knowing where to strike. right. and that s part of what the capability is going to allow us to do. when we left in 2011, we pulled the plug on our ability to have intelligence and reconnaissance. i flew isr. i think developing the targets is good and if he s not strikesing because we don t have the intel, that s one thing. but if you have trucks moving out in the open. can you blow those up and freeze ice nis the towns they re in and stop the forward momentum. congresswoman sanchez, we
consequences in iraq. and that s going to impact not just this president, but presidents for decades. clearly. because george bush is going to be walking around the halls or living in the white house for decades. we ll see. in the crossfire tonight, representatives loretta sanchez, a california democrat and representative adam kinsinger, a republican from illinois. congressman, i want to start with you. here s the plan the president laid out today. 300 military advisers, increase in intelligence. additional equipment, american-led diplomacy to get some political reforms on the ground in iraq and position our forces for a military strike this is what i call a responsible approach. that we only come to by asking those tough questions. and you know it might not make for good tv or satisfy armchair quarterbacks. but it s responsible. what more would you do here? well-day air strikes and look, think it s a good start. i think it s a start that should have happened probably in janu