alexander is giving more information that the president is not going to be announcing any action and he will however give an update on the situation in iraq, and according the a se senior administration official there, and mark, i am sure that you saw senator john mccain on morning joe this morning, and the other part of the story, of course s the history of iraq. why nuri al maliki chose to say that he would not back u.s. troops there, any number as a support unit, and really, how we got here due to the policy decisions. you have john mccain saying that the war in a sense was won, and that this government was stable in iraq and something that general mccaffery said about ten minutes ago was flat out not true. right. this is not occurring in a vacu vacuum, but a process ten or more years in the making and some say centuries, with the sunnis and the shiites in the area, but it is a situation
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cost/benefit calculation going forward about what kind of military and i think the term is kinetic excursions are worth doing? it s a tremendous temptation. you don t all of a se sudden to have amass the same kind of equipment or do the politically difficult work of building support for a war. you candon t have to declare wa. what you can do instead is basically move a small unit with a few remotely piloted aircraft into a place like yemen, into a place like pakistan, into a place like somalia and a the substitute other than weighty considerations about the wisdom of a war, the efficacy of the war. it s rare you hear the president of the united states really talking about what are really very hot battlefields all over the world that really marginally declared would be a generous way of putting it. is it an issue in congress at all? you don t hear the president talking about it. is it at all partisan or even at
wrote in his book and told congress the reason he did it russia, he says, advising china to dump fannie and freddie debt. in other words the bond yield started to fall apart and the government had the seize those two immediately. mike: we hear the president say the economy is on the rebound. are we doing better? the economy is expanding. that is true. there is some very limited new job creation, very limited. the deficit, the hangover of debt will slow us down. we re not recovering in a robust fashion like we should be from a se serious recession. far from it. it s slow recovery. the administration says we inherited a recession. every administration said it for two decades. joe biden has been in the government since the nixon era. when they start borrowing they put the thumb on the scale to do their borrowing. mike: before we go, remind the viewers of something.
wrote in his book and told congress the reason he did it russia, he says, advising china to dump fannie and freddie debt. in other words the bond yield started to fall apart and the government had the seize those two immediately. mike: we hear the president say the economy is on the rebound. are we doing better? the economy is expanding. that is true. there is some very limited new job creation, very limited. the deficit, the hangover of debt will slow us down. we re not recovering in a robust fashion like we should be from a se serious recession. far from it. it s slow recovery. the administration says we inherited a recession. every administration said it for two decades. joe biden has been in the government since the nixon era. when they start borrowing they put the thumb on the scale to do their borrowing. mike: before we go, remind the viewers of something.