democracy. in that quasi stable democracy, we lost an american troop over the last few days and we re hearing again reports of the vice president landing on the ground in baghdad to celebrate the change of this mission to a diplomatic one. if this mission is a diplomatic one, what powers do our u.s. troops have to defend themselves if they are actually attacked? well, they can still defend themselves and they re still allowed to return fire when fired upon. jenna: if they re in a dangerous situation, they have to wait until they re provoked to actually fire. well, ultimately i think the commanders on the ground are going to let platoon leaders and sergeant toss make that decision if they should engage but yes, we ll be deferring to the iraqi counterparts. we have about 5000 counter terrorist elite special forces types who are at the tip of the shall peer still, taking the fight to remaining insurgent cell, so we re still going on the offensive, behind the scenes. you won t hear m