shannon: prosecutors and defense attorney get one final chance to sway the jury in the casey anthony trial. peter doocy has the top stories. afterwards, defense will finish closing arguments. earlier today, prosecution said that casey killed her daughter because she didn t want to be a parent. she is charged with killing her three years ago and dumping the 2-year-old body in the woods. senator lindsey graham is criticizing the way that president obama is handling the troop drawdown in afghanistan. appearing on sunday sunday with special guest host shannon bream graham accused the president of not listening to his generals and putting forward a withdrawal schedule too aggressive. crews in montana trying to mop up an oil spill in the yellowstone river. exxon-mobil pipeline leaked
against the advice of military advisors, he took an option that general petraeus did not agree with or offer up to bring troops home. is the timing ironic that the taliban would do this sort of attack? i don t know if it s ironic, but it s troubling certainly. the fact of the matter is i think what the president has decided to do has put wind in the sails of the taliban, al qaeda and others. this isn t the first time the president has ignored general petraeus advice. the president gave him 33,000 troops when he asked for 40,000. now he has a withdrawal schedule that tells our allies and enemies exactly what we are going to do. it induces a will the morris can into our strategy and there is a big disconnect between our strategy and the resource our troops will have for executing that strategy. today in fact at the press
lives lost were not squandered and iraq doesn t return to its old was ways and have a different arab iraq in the middle east. i think what is missing or when win or victory what about future context? what is the plan going forward? there are two scenarios for iraq. an independent iraq either swallowed up by iran or the iranians feel so abandoned and so isolated they build a huge saddam like army which is as one general has said it will not only be able to play home games and play away games, too. not only to defend iraq but an offensive force in the region. we have to provide the iraqis with real security guarantees they don t need to do that, we will play some sort of role but to do that would conflict with obama s intense fidelity to this withdrawal schedule and indicating some sort of flexibility that if the context requires it, we will be back in some way and we will have
that influence behind the scenes. we have a very weak ambassador. we have a president who has shown no interest whatsoever in iraq. he talks only about ending the war and leaving, not about success and we have an administration that is linked and tied to a rigid withdrawal schedule, arbitrarily chosen by obama a year and a half ago, thinking we would have a stable government now. but in the absence of it, we have a drawon drawdown. for whatever reason we have had little influence. iranians have had influence on the shaping of the government,ed saudis the turks. each riding its own horse. each creating a stalemate. we have not. what essentially has happened with the biden speeches we are talking loudly and carrying no stick at all. let s be quiet about this and exert influence. having withdrawn our troops down to a level where they are going
that influence behind the scenes. we have a very weak ambassador. we have a president who has shown no interest whatsoever in iraq. he talks only about ending the war and leaving, not about success and we have an administration that is linked and tied to a rigid withdrawal schedule, arbitrarily chosen by obama a year and a half ago, thinking we would have a stable government now. but in the absence of it, we have a drawon drawdown. for whatever reason we have had little influence. iranians have had influence on the shaping of the government,ed saudis the turks. each riding its own horse. each creating a stalemate. we have not. what essentially has happened with the biden speeches we are talking loudly and carrying no stick at all. let s be quiet about this and exert influence. having withdrawn our troops down to a level where they are going