Independence. Our third line, 202 5855883, set aside for iraq war veterans. You can contact us via social media, cspanwj. Facebook. Com cspan if you want to make a comment and participate that way. You can send an email. Of the financial times. Obama to send 300 troops to iraq as sunni rebellion grows. That is how they headline it. Inside, they have an editorial. Where the blame lies in iraq. The instinctive response of many western is is that the usled invasion of 2003 is the cause of todays turmoil. The invasion is judged to have been a mistake. Host all this was bound to create longlasting turbulence your custom of the editorial in the financial times. Of the newront york times. Obama orders 300 advisors to iraq. A story below that about Prime MinisterNouri Almaliki and potential replacements. Challengers emerge to replace maliki. Three members of the shiite majority have emerged as possible candidates to take over as Prime Minister. It says that the kurds want the Iraq Central Government to recognize kirkuk as part of the kurdish territory in the north. The kurds want assurances they can sell the oil from kurdistan without oversight from the government. Host the foreign minister of the curtis region the kurdish region agreed. Host a little bit from the New York Times. Military advisers to iraq. I what your impressions of what the president said yesterday. We begin with artie in new orleans, a democrat. Caller good morning. Going topresident is do with 300 people and send them to iraq advisers that is not very many people. Was is going to happen, i looking at television yesterday. One of the news people had a photograph of how the American Embassy is set up over there. It was telling them where everything is located and what the walls are made of. Thatnly thing i can see would benefit, i am a vietnam veteran, that they have to have a free fire zone within. 5 mile of that embassy to keep that lays say. If you are in the middle of a city and you have 300 people, that is a drop of water in the middle of a busy interstate and expecting it to make ia f lood. The rules of engagement have to be changed for them to be successful. What we have been doing, they have to let someone shoot at them first, which causes casualties, before they can return fire. Ie, are you saying you support the idea of sending military advisers or troops . They are goingr to be stationed, they need a free fire zone around the embassy. Anytime these people see a threat, they can react. Host are you a veteran . Caller i served two tors in vietnam. The rules of engagement got people killed, we had to wait for someone to fire on us before we could fire back. Our we have set aside fourth line for iraq veterans. In case you would like to call him. 202 5855883 is the number. Sue on our independent line from harrisburg, pennsylvania. Caller hi. Yeah, i just wondered. Areard this before that we debating allocating 370 billion to the Defense Industry this year. Thend of wonder whether usual idea that money talks. How would obama possibly be the one to make this decision when the military in our country completely controls 370 billion of our money. I would wonder if it would not be good for us to have some completely independent country helping us to make this decision trying the as usual pentagon and military Industrial Complex making our decision for us. Host thank you. Curtis calling in from georgia on our iraq veterans line. When did you serve . Caller 20052006, which would convoyi was doing escorts to the jordan border and the syrian border. Got hit thanksgiving 2005. Got hit by our own american 2155nition, which was rounds. Provinceem in anbar was syrian foreign fighters. We will have to deal with the syrian problem. As far as our advisers going over there, our special forces, i hope they go there and use aircraftnters for our drop munitionsto on isis. Too hdad, we thought from baghdad, we fought too hard for this. Host thank you. Washington post has three oped concerning iraq. David ignatius, michael gershen, charles krauthammer. Heres a selection from each of them. We begin with mr. Ignatius. Targeting the insurgents is the name of the oped. Requirelicy cannot military force alone. Host that is david ignatius. Michael gershon writes, iraq threatens to become a mirror of syria. Shiitepports a proxy government in the gulf states siding with sunni islamists. Host finally, charles krauthammer. By 2009, al qaeda in iraq had not just been decimated but humiliated by the u. S. Surge in anbar. Host a little bit from charles krauthammer. Heres a little bit more from the president yesterday. [video clip] the u. S. Will increase support to Iraqi Security forces. We are prepared to create joint Operation Centers in baghdad and northern iraq. To share intelligence and plan to confront the terrorist threat of isil. Through our Counterterrorism Partnership fund, we will work with congress to support and provide a commit. A rock through our embassy and we are prepared to send additional advisers, to assess, train, advise and support Iraqi Security forces going forward. American forces will not be returning to combat in iraq. If they takeiraqi the fight to terrorists who threaten the people, the region, and american interests as well. Maryland,tsville, democrat line. What you think . Caller good morning how are you . Democrats have no representative. Obama has no [indiscernible] not just for legal [indiscernible] obama has members. A black Supreme Court justice thank you. Host jesse from michigan, hi. Caller thank you for letting me speak. [indiscernible] we should just keep going over there. What are we gaining over there . We have been there for eight years. Now we are going back over there, spending more that we should be spending at home. You can always find money for these works these wars. We have people unemployed in so many people are going wrong. Obama wants to go into syria. Bomb over there. People did not like it and he changed his mind. Hes doing the same thing again. They it is disgusting. It is just, yeah. Leave it there, thank you for calling. A couple facebook comments, a lively conversation going on there. Again, the majority opinion ignored. Eric says whatever he does, it will result from a political calculation. Toin, if you want participate in the conversation, facebook. Com cspan. That conversation will be posted all day long about the military advisers going to iraq. What adviceer, are these advisers going to relate . Andeaux says heres bill here is marietweets aaron says here is another tweet today, there is a hearing and the ways and Means Committee on the irs email situation. And the last email situation. Today had this article in yesterdays paper how the irs last lois lerners emails. What is the focus of todays hearing echo guest the ways and Means Committee is going to try to figure out what happened to these emails, why they were lost, when they were lost, where they are, how many of them there are. They will have the commissioner of the Internal Revenue service in to give testimony about the missing emails. Host what happened to the emails . We are talking about 111. About 2011. Guest lois lerner is the central figure in the irs controversy over the targeting of Tea Party Groups beginning in 2012and going through the elections to 2013. Her emails are going to be central evidence and trying to figure out what the motive was for this targeting scheme and who else was involved. Her hard drive crashed in may 2011, right in the middle of all that is going on at the irs, that is how the irs lost some number of her emails. It is not just a hard drive, it is the fact that the irs has a limit on the number of emails one mailbox can have. I dont know about you, i can go through 150 megabytes in a week. Thatolicy at the time was if there is an important record in your email, you have to delete it out of your email box before you do that, you have to print out and save it in a file. The other problem, the emails were backed up but only for six months and then they would recycle the tapes. There was a lot of mismanagement at the irs with a male system that led to the emails being lost. Host has this reignited the controversy . Guest absolutely. Orrin hatch get a speech on the floor of the senate yesterday. Vocal not been the most player on capitol hill on this issue. This really energized him, he wants to get to the bottom of what happened. A renewed call for a special prosecutor to look into this. Republicans on capitol hill has been trying to do since the story broke more than a year ago goes beyondut if it the irs. If it goes to the Justice Department and two other executive agencies. There was some coordination going on between the irs and the to figure outment whether any of these social welfare groups that applied for tax assistance and violated the law by engaging in tax evasion. They want to know if this goes up to the white house. There has been zero evidence so far in any of the congressional investigations that the white house was involved in this targeting. Republicans are going to say as long as we do not have all of the evidence in this case, it is impossible to know who else might be involved. Besides johnte, koskinen, is anyone else testifying . Guest hes the only one. Host Gregory Korte he of usa today. T 9 00 a. M. Is a on cspan2 at the ways and Means Committee. Back to iraq. David, ohio. What do you think . Of ar probably the least bad choice among bad choices. Callers saying it is pretty obvious, our forces have been crippled by restrictions, ieds and rpgs. We are going up against things we were not equipped to deal with. The enemy calculated the best way to take on our vehicles, our humvees and all. We kept repeatedly sending them out to be blown up. That did not make a lot of sense to me to begin with. We have proven you cannot impose democracy. You cannot stand in the middle of a religious war. That is what we pretty will have proven. The tragedy of the irs situation is, the irs lacks the resources to due inadequate job of enforcement. Prosecution of tax cheats. This director, he was not aware this was going on. He was not even there. Host that is david in ohio. Tweeting in about military advisors. U. S. Policy still seems confused, semi and military advisers to help maliki government without taking sides in a religious war. The Washington Post has an article this morning. , as is on the inside, a10 focus on links between iraq and syria is the focus of the article. A little bit from here. Host everybody here recognizes that you cannot silo was happening in iraq from was happening in syria, said one administration official. Next call is bill on our republican line from norfolk, connecticut. Hi. Caller how are you . Host im good. Caller here we go again. Ever bringsobody up. We have been through this in vietnam and never learn. We started with advisers. Two of the biggest problems i see, these are corporate wars. The corporations are making big money out of keeping pretextua out of keeping perpetual war and dumping it on the back of the taxpayers. Number two, i never served in the service, we have all kinds that have never served before and the service on congressional committees. They make all these decisions to start wars. They went to yellow or Ivy League Schools and never served themselves. On top of that, we have people like john mccain who want his idea of a victory unalike the other neoconservatives, is endless wars with troops going everywhere, all over the place. I do not even know what to say. I am so mad, i dont even vote anymore. Host thank you. Marco rubio spoke on the senate floor yesterday after the president made his announcement. [video clip] i am hopeful that what this is designed to do is set the framework for the u. S. To achieve a number of important that directly impact the National Security of the u. S. The first, of course, i believe that the u. S. Working in conjunction with others in the region need to do everything we can to cut off islss cut off isils supply lines. Isis, the same group involved in syria, is not just a bunch of sunni iraqis, these are foreign fighters. Including hundreds that have come from the west. Who have flocked to syria and now iraq to participate. Addition, this group, in order to make the gains it is making in iraq, require distinct supply lines that allow them to transport individuals and weapons and ammunition. In addition to the things that are getting their hands on as they make these advances. One of the goals that the United States must have working in conjunction with others is to sever the supply lines so they cannot continue to make these games. These gains. The second thing i hope this is a process of doing, the beginning of a process that would achieve focusing on command and control areas they operate from within syria. Without the safe havens, they would not be able to expand the reach that they now have. What president announced today is a First Step Towards a multistep process that allows us to address those two things. Host members of Congress Also reacted after the president spoke yesterday. Here is republican ofresentative jeff duncan south carolina. Obama tells a rock it should cover it with more inclusion of different groups. Like how gop was included in obamacare drafting. Gregory meeks, a democrat from theyork, agree with president iraqi leaders must rise above differences. From miami,ing in independent line. You are on washington journal. Caller good morning. I justted to say happened to see a documentary on the vietnam war. Is almostme how it like a repeat of what we went through there. Lyndon b. Johnson had inherited a war from the prior president , just like obama has. Like the previous caller noted, he had begun sending in advisers to vietnam. This either president obama should attack the problem and go into win or not at all. That is ultimately my answer. Host thank you. For 5853881 republicans. 202 5853880 for democrats. 202 5853882 for independents. Talking about u. S. Military advisers heading to iraq. We want your view point. We set aside our fourth line for iraq war veterans. 202 5853883. House gopalso was the leadership elections. Here is politico, inside the house gop leadership shakeup. Scalise,ut steve republican of louisiana who became the new majority whip. The story of scalises assent detailed by more than a dozen gop aides and lawmakers. A tale of keen attention to detail, unrelenting drive and commitment. On to writeco goes in the end, it was not even close. When he walked into the office building, scalise had the support of 126 republicans, far more than roskam or stutzman. Scalise had staff holding lists of lawmakers making sure they showed up to support him. Scalise delivered the quick ballot knockout few saw. Businessweek, this is their analysis of what happened. A party gets shut out of house gop leadership. In the political taxonomy of capitol hill, joshua green writes, scalise is a curious figure. According to national journal, he is the fourth most conservative member of the house gop caucus. Chairman of the republican study committee, a spot usually held by tea party inclined conservatives. The sort of people who frequently make misery for john boehner. Most Tea Party Folks do not view scalise as one of their own because he has been close to boehner and because he fired a key republican study th committee aide who now works for ted cruz. Scalises conclusion scalise red stateon ensures republicans will be represented. If you are incredulous at cantors defeat, the tea party has not done more to further the cause. This is the least you could have hoped to get. That is in Bloomberg Businessweek this morning. Back to your calls on military advisers to iraq. Shannon and florida, republican line. Go ahead. Caller how are you . Im sitting here watching this. One thing that strikes me is when they took the first city, i know everybody has changed the view, taken by surprise. The president seems to find out everything over cnn. It seems to me, as i watch our taken in our tanks and our Stinger Missiles and used against each city we have liberated on a steady march to take over all iraq, it is our responsibility to go in with airstrikes at least. And bomb and destroy every piece of equipment we have given them, which we should not have given them to start with. We gave it to them anyway. It is the iraqis responsibility to fight for their own freedom. There is a time they have to step up and said this on acceptable. We cannot do it for them. But we can destroy everything that we have given them in order so that the sunni insurgents, al qaeda or whatever they are, whatever you want to call them they have a different name every day. Isis or whatever it is. They should not be using our machine guns, our Stinger Missiles. There is not a far stretch that those Stinger Missiles are going to find their way to the Palestinian Border and start taking out israeli jets. Passenger jets. It is not too far of a stretch of the imagination that these things are going to be used for. In florida, near fort lauderdale. Front page of the Washington Post. Scott walker, prosecutors. Wisconsin governor involved in scheme. Thatcutors have alleged scott walker was part of a wide ranging criminal scheme to coordinate the activity of conservative groups that spent millions to him and other repubd off recall efforts. Host it goes on to say that although the case turns on wisconsin state law, is being watched closely by politicians and Campaign Operatives nationwide as they try to navigate state and federal laws between coordination campaigns and wellfunded independent groups. Finally, the case is a socalled john doe investigation. It operates under secrecy rules. Host frederick in new york, independent line. You are on the washington journal. Hi. Caller