said if you intervene in iraq, it will break into pieces into sunni and kurtish pieces and they were right. when the next president bush contemplated in 2003 going into iraq some of us said that again. if you invade iraq, it will break into three pieces as soon as you leave. that s what happened. we should have never gone in in the first place. the situation we face now is directly because we went in. so when you heard dick cheney s recent editorial, his writing with his daughter, i was curious to hear your response to his really blistering attack on the obama administration ask their foreign policy. dick cheney is a discredited hypocrite. he knew in 1991 that it was a mistake to go in. and that was the only time he s ever been right about iraq.
what began as a sunni awakens spread to other parts of iraq to encourage local tribes man to turn against al qaeda, the u.s. military is paying local shakes to provide security. a gunman like this can earn up to $10 a day for services. the next step is to have young men like this join the iraqi police, but for that, the u.s. military needs the corporation of the shia dominated government in baghdad. that was reporting from here back in 2007. what is interesting about that, of kourcourse, after the u.s. l maliki stopped paying those groups and some are involved in the fight yet again against the central government here and those are some of the groups the u.s. is hoping to reach out to, get them back on board and that s why they want a leader here, a government here that s willing to reach out to sunni groups. i want to continue to talk about the breaking news tonight. nick robertson is here, arwa
your report when you had talked to some of the folks on the street that said hey, we don t need americans here. that was prevalent when i was there during my last tour of over three years in that country, and what is interesting is you hear that from the people on the street. they will tell you, hey, we don t really need americans. we re good to go. when you talk to the iraqi security forces, they know the capabilities we provide with intelligence contacts, with the capabilities to various elements of the battle field. so i think the iraqi security forces right now that see us pushing the government as well as the army, they are very happy to have this small number of special forces and special operating forces in the area. again, i emphasize not only the clarity and the intelligence but the communication packages and ability to reach back with the things that our special forces bring with them to the battle field. sg yeah, it s interesting that
racetrack and at the same time get annoyed at a bike going the wrong way. jeannie mose, cnn new york. he s probably single now. i bet most car racers don t carry around air fresheners like carry around air fresheners like that. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good evening, it s 8:00 p.m., 3:00 a.m. in baghdad. chemical weapons in iraq, that s the breaking news. sunni extremists fighter haves taken a former chemical weapons production plant that still contains a stockpile of old weapons, apparently. nick robertson is working sources and he s been to the plant years ago and will join us in a moment. jim is working the pentagon. president obama this afternoon call add key moment for iraq.
do this, who is being dispatched to the reeg th region and it s a very big if, to get u.s., iran, sod did arabia, all who have different ideas what should happen in iraq to use that influence to make what bobby was saying, a governing coalition, see if you can get a coalition or a leadership group of national unity and to try to keep iraq unified and democratic. christiane amanpour, thank you very much and bobby, thank you. any time, thank you. in all the talk about gio politics and the politicians, it s important to pause for a minute and remember what happened here over the last week and the death toll and the deaths of people whose names we won t remember or don t even know i should say whose stories we will never know but people trying to live good and descent lives, trying to raise their children, just trying to live in peace, who ended up being killed. take a look at this scene today