we don t have any troops left. interesting any time that we ejected a dictate ernie where in the world we left troops behind. after iraq we will have more troops left in honduras than we have in iraq. what is more dangerous is the fact that iran is waiting in the wings. they are looking to have a dominant influence in iraq and this won t be good going forward. chris: as secretary clinton said, i hope you heard it at the beginning of the programs one of the reasons we did what we did in iraq was to try to create a sovereign country and the maed licki regime seems to have decided they wanted us out. i heard what the secretary of state said and that is true, they are a sovereign nation. we always leave troops back to secure the peace. that hasn t happened.
we don t have any troops left. interesting any time that we ejected a dictate ernie where in the world we left troops behind. after iraq we will have more troops left in honduras than we have in iraq. what is more dangerous is the fact that iran is waiting in the wings. they are looking to have a dominant influence in iraq and this won t be good going forward. chris: as secretary clinton said, i hope you heard it at the beginning of the programs one of the reasons we did what we did in iraq was to try to create a sovereign country and the maed licki regime seems to have decided they wanted us out. i heard what the secretary of state said and that is true, they are a sovereign nation. we always leave troops back to secure the peace. that hasn t happened.
we don t have any troops left. interesting any time that we ejected a dictate ernie where in the world we left troops behind. after iraq we will have more troops left in honduras than we have in iraq. what is more dangerous is the fact that iran is waiting in the wings. they are looking to have a dominant influence in iraq and this won t be good going forward. chris: as secretary clinton said, i hope you heard it at the beginning of the programs one of the reasons we did what we did in iraq was to try to create a sovereign country and the maed licki regime seems to have decided they wanted us out. i heard what the secretary of state said and that is true, they are a sovereign nation. we always leave troops back to secure the peace. that hasn t happened.
whether or not we listen to the grassroots activists who empowered this congress to act to make the cuts necessary to move the economy forward. we can t even agree on that right now. i don t see the hard choices being maed realistically. it s going to take a nominee who is willing to risk it all. to make that, that first step, i think. it looks like you want to jump in there, david. i do. i think the test for the president s budget and the seriousness for both republicans and democrats, is whether they re prepared to reform the entitlement programs. right. starting with medicare, medicaid. social security. those make up well over half the budget. and i think what s been discouraging so far is that almost all of the controversy and all of the debate has centered on what s called the nondefense discretionary part of the budget. which is less than 15% of the total budget. you can t squeeze all of the spending out of there. you have to take on entitlements, and frankly you have to