we went into iraq, there was talk of a quick solution, there was talk about the happy iraqis, there was talk about all of the nation building happening almost overnight. none of it happened. and george bush had pretty much nothing but contempt for congress. now it s interesting to watch the republicans on the other side demanding the kind of accountability that they never asked of george w. bush. and that s where politics is never fair, is that you can never get one party, especially in this case the republicans on this whole issue of clearly military mission, to be in any way consistent when the shoe is suddenly on the other foot. and so we re seeing newt gingrich and the republican candidates for president all lis he,ey try to target barack obama politically, aren t they? completely so.
maybe it would have been better if the president hadn t said it so loudly. instead of saying why isn t this resolved, why isn t this going smoothly, it doesn t go smoothly if you want to do it with others, it doesn t go smoothly, but it has greater legitimacy, avoids a lot of problems and allows us to share the burden. jamie rubin, thanks for being here. nice to be with you. monday, president obama sent a letter to congress that said by the way, we re going into libya. today, house speaker john boehner as i noted responded with a letter of his own, reading additionally in part i and many other members of the house of representatives are troubled that u.s. military resources were committed to war without clearly defining for the american people, the congress and our troops what the mission in libya is and what america s role is in achieving that mission, a united nations security council resolution does not substitute for a u.s. political and military strategy. joining me now, huf
that speaker put on the floor of congress last week while this libya thing was blowing up. he decided what we should vote on is de-funding national public radio, rather than using the floor to do something important, like bring the republican healthcare to the floor or have legitimate debate on what to do in libya. but he starts ringing his hands about there hasn t been congressional consultation is outrageous, considering he rolled over for eight years of president bush doing much, much worse. congressman, thank you for joining us. thank you, lawrence. a new report shows most american catholics favor gay rights. that shouldn t come as a surprise to anyone that has listened to me about american catholics. that s in tonight s rewrite. first, another republican you ve never heard of announces he is running for president. a new poll puts romney at the top of the list of potential
george w. bush never provided. don t forget, lawrence, it seems like ancient history that when we went into iraq, there was talk of a quick solution, there was talk about the happy iraqis, there was talk about all of the nation building happening almost overnight. none of it happened. and george bush had pretty much nothing but contempt for congress. now it s interesting to watch the republicans on the other side demanding the kind of accountability that they never asked of george w. bush. and that s where politics is never fair, is that you can never get one party, especially in this case the republicans on this whole issue of clearly military mission, to be in any way consistent when the shoe is suddenly on the other foot. and so we re seeing newt gingrich and the republican candidates for president all trying to find their attack lines here, all being in some way inconsistent with themselves as they try to target barack obama politically, aren t they?
question. absolutely. and the exit strategy will be executed this week in the sense that we will be pulling back from our much more active efforts to shape the environment. how do you engage in what is combat now in effect with a crazy dictator like gadhafi while you are announcing what you will not do? well, i think the administration is playing a little bit too much to those in the congress and in the american people who are worried about us stretched too thin, emphasizing a bit too much things like there won t be a ground invasion. no one expects a ground invasion, or that other people will be paying for this. i think you re right. it is difficult to survive war in a democracyer wadvantage. but in the end, i think the public will stay with this. the trick is for the administration to distinguish between short term and long term goals. short term goal is what was