Imbedded as advisers because thats the only reason the iraqi army was 900,000 men in uniform on paper. 900,000. A couple of thousands guys took mosul, its absurd why, because we had no imbeds. The tribes could run home to mama because we werent there to shame them. The culture of region revolves around shame and honor. Youll run home to your tribe. So, we have to be a part of the solution, we have to sell the concept of a functioning iraq and we have to really jet sonned once and for all, its an arab saying, but the idea of enemy is the enemy is my friend is complete, complete hogwash when it comes to iran. The idea, that, you know, iran because theyre killing sunni extremists are our friends . You have to be smoking something and its not tobacco to believe that. Okay, we have a question over here. Yes, im nate madden with the 221st wonderfulson initiative. I wondering if the panel can speak more to this ideology dr. Gorka you spoke about how the narrative of Information Warfare that t
We have blegedegged and pleaded and nobody has listened to us. If you had to pay for all we pay for, the hospitals the tens of thousands of babies, all you have to do in this country is you walk over the line, you get someone pregnant, i cant leave these are american babies. Thats something we have to get rid of. I tell you, blacks should be the most upset about that. They should be the most upset. That was put in there to keep blacks safe. And i just went to my 50th reunion to get the party going. And they cant believe what theyre seeing. My friends i have so many hispanic friends. What am i supposed to call you mexican hispanics or we will be covering donald trump this weekend the live weekend event. Tell you more about that. We want to hear your thoughts on scott walker has he entered the race. Hes had two term governor. He won reelection last year in wisconsin. Athens, ohio, on our democrats line. Caller i cant believe i got through. Iate have to tell you the first time i got throu
Years after the war. And a congressional briefing on internet defamation lawsuits and their impact on freedom of speech. This aoefrbt the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies. It is 90 minutes. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to center for american progress. Were glad to see folks here on a rainy monday morning. Im Vice President for National Security and International Policy here. I would like to welcome our distinguished guests from shanghai. They have both managed to get to washington despite a typhoon that disrupted all air operations out of shanghai. So were extremely happy youre here safe and sound. We hope the jet lag wont keep you from raising strong arguments and lively discussions this morning. Back in february 2014, the china u. S. Change institution and Shanghai Institute neuer International Studies discussed a report on a new model for major power realizes. It stressed it needed to be more about avoiding conflict. They needed to look at forwardlooking actions and
Budgets. We had employees willing to give up compensation to meet this need of veterans in the community. Maybe some bonuses too. Miss walorski. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Mr. Secretary good to see you. Thanks for being here today. The problem that i dont understand with this, this is what i dont get, is that it seems like it keeps coming back to this issue of perception. You know you come today and you have your stats and your tables and your graphs and thoed kind of things and we over here, we want Solutions Just as badly as everybody else because were fighting for veterans in our district and fighting in a bipartisan matter and doing everything we can do legally through a legislative process but what weve been up to since you been here last is multiple hearings that go on every other day and look at the whistleblower retaliation, and systematic failures in denver and waste and fraud and abuse and ive been involved and every time your i. T. Chief has been here and we talked about this
Good afternoon. You may be seated. Mr. President , chairman dunford, members of the join chiefs of staff, member of the department of defense, men and women of our armed forces and distinguished getzs. Thank you for being here today for the ceremonial swearing in of general james mattis as the 26th secretary of defense of the United States of america. It is a high honor for me to be with you today. You look around the room, we stand in a place of honor. The hall of heroes. The names of 3,498 american patriots are inscribed then owalls. Each of them performed personals act out valor before andon the call of duty and received the medal of honor as a consequence. It is humbling. Secretary mattis, is soon to mark his 50th anniversary in the service of this country. During more than four decked in uniform commanding four levels. The ledden in infran tray battalion in iraq in 1919 and led the first marine expedition ary forces. Commanding u. S. Joint forces command nato supreme ally command