weekend and an introduction that we will have to bleep. iraq s security forces retreating in chaos. the key iraqi city of ramadi has fallen to isis. this is really serious. this is a disaster. ramadi, a city where hundreds of american troops gave their lives a decade ago. was it a mistake to go to war with iraq? this question continues to trip up these presidential candidates. all this was on fox news where the anchors are ordered to pre-like you. was it a mistake to go to war with iraq. that s not the same question. that s the question i m asking you. it was not a mistake for the president to decide to go into iraq because at the time he was told. i m not asking you that. knowing what we knew then, it was wrong. bush was the only one who even thought to link 9/11 to iraq. the iraqi dictator must not be permitted to threaten america. it was misrepresented by the bush/cheney administration. elizabeth warren. she is the [ bleep ] champion o
a welcome in california this weekend and an introduction that we will have to bleep. iraq s security forces retreating in chaos. the key iraqi city of ramadi has fallen to isis. this is really serious. this is a disaster. ramadi, a city where hundreds of american troops gave their lives a decade ago. was it a mistake to go to war with iraq? this question continues to trip up these presidential candidates. all this was on fox news where the anchors are ordered to pre-like you. was it a mistake to go to war withç iraq. that s not the same question. that s the question i m asking you. it was not a mistake for the president to decide to go into iraq because at the time he was told. i m not asking you that. knowing what we knew then, it was wrong. bush was the only one who even thought to link 9/11 to iraq. the iraqi dictator must not be permitted to threaten america. it was misrepresented by the bush/cheney administration. elizabeth warren.
good friday morning to you. we start, once again, in iraq. where just days after 300 u.s. special forces troops will arrive to help the iraqi government fight againback agai the isis terrorist assaults tearing apart the country. president obama announced he s sending military advisers to help train iraqi security forces as well as assess the security strength of isis. the president, less than three years ago, trumted the end of america s war in iraq insists he s not sending the military back into combat. i think we have to guard against so let me repeat what i ve said in the past. american combat troops are not going to be fighting in iraq again. let s start with nbc news. over all most weary democrats, some republicans seem to be supporting the president s plan by and large. what is next for the white house as it tries to sell the strategy? reporter: the next step, i think, is going to be the face conversations that secretary of state john kerry has with leaders in t
pushing iraq s war because of his connection with the oil equipment company haliburton. in other words, for personal financial gain. the war runs deeper than this on the republican side. rand paul like his father ron thinks the people who got us into the iraq war violated the very nature of their oaths to use the u.s. military power only for the defense of this country. they believe that war was bought for ideological reasons, shrouded in this dishonest claim that iraq had nuclear weapons capable of hitting the u.s. cheney gets more real with each new national opinion poll. his own republican party might denounce him in history by selecting a presidential candidate who openly and starkly turns the party against the bush-cheney record on iraq, one that many now see as the cheney record, given w s far greater passion for oil painting these days than for any more oil warfare. as he stands at his easel, w wouldn t be less interested in defending what was done in iraq, including t
it would be vastly expensive, it would be a civil war. we would have no exit strategy. he goes on and on for five minutes. dick cheney said it was a bad idea. that s why we didn t go to baghd baghdad. few years later he s back in the government and it s a good idea to go into iraq. 5 richard pearl is coming out of the white house. the first thing richard pearl says is we ve got it, now we can go into iraq. and he said don t we need to know they have some connection to 9/11 he says it doesn t matter. it became an excuse. 9/11 became an excuse for a war they already wanted in iraq. that s an amazing thing to read something that sounded so much like my own and your own critique of the war.