into his thinking and the polls that show most polls show us we want out of there. sick of it most americans agree with me it wasn t worth the blood and treasure you could have done it another way. hindsight, i don t want to cheap shot anybody here. as i said, i was wrong. i relied on these people. they were wrong human beings make mistakes and that s that. we just made a mistake. an intelligent mistake. you are skipping around the fact that the surge succeeded. that the course of events in iraq that seemed to be underway was reversed and the situation ended up much more happily than or at least came to be a better situation than it appeared it was going to be and that those gains are what are at risk now if the pullout proves to be too soon. bill: absolutely. it s a balancing act. it is. but, remember this, a peaceful iraq allied basically with the united states in that part of the middle east is an
polls that show most polls show us we want out of there. sick of it most americans agree with me it wasn t worth the blood and treasure you could have done it another way. hindsight, i don t want to cheap shot anybody here. as i said, i was wrong. i relied on these people. they were wrong human beings make mistakes and that s that. we just made a mistake. an intelligent mistake. you are skipping around the fact that the surge succeeded. that the course of events in iraq that seemed to be underway was reversed and the situation ended up much more happily than or at least came to be a better situation than it appeared it was going to be and that those gains are what are at risk now if the pullout proves to be too soon. bill: absolutely. it s a balancing act. it is. but, remember this, a peaceful iraq allied basically with the united states in that part of the middle east is an
march to november. they have changed the course of an election. so these folks can have power. but i think they are becoming far, far more dangerous to democrats than the tea party was to republicans. bill: do anything violent. this is what i am saying. they were covered as if they were violent which is why you saw the numbers were down. these guys were being covered as if they are benign. and i have tried to be nice about this. bill: they didn t. right now we have a situation where, juan, you know this, americans, they honor dissent and protest. yeah. but they don t want this kind of stuff. they don t want little children in the middle of this. idiot patients bring their kids to that no reason for the occupy wall street protests to be there anyway. this group that had their convention in washington has nothing to do with wall street. then they are attacking burger king and attacking the cops. there is drug overdoses in vancouver and crime all over the place. i mean, this mov
or the intelligence agencies had been right about the state of his intelligence program. a chance at a more democratic middle east is a much better place. bill: what are you going to say to the moms and dads and husbands and wives whose loved ones are dead or maimed if this time next year iraq is in a civil war, which is absolutely possible, because president obama is withdrawing all the american troops now, and then it s just a mass chaotic situation? what are you going to say to them? well, i m not going to deal with n. a hypothetical because right now we have an iraq that is. bill: shaky. it s shaky but all young democracies are shaky, bill. bill: this is a civil war that happened over there. we have an iraq, bill, that isn t in contra distinction to the iranians, for instance, seeking weapons of mass destruction. we have an iraq that is about to be the ninth largest purchaser of american military equipment in the world. fourth largest in the region. we have an iraq that
the lawyer for one of the accusers finally spoke out. let s go outfront. i m erin burnett. out front on this friday, the lawyer for herman cain s accuser speaks. she made a complaint in good faith about a series of inappropriate behaviors and unwanted advances from the ceo. she and her husband see no value in revisiting this matter now, nor in discussing the matter any further, publicly or privately. joel bennett, that s who it was, sawed his client stands by her comments while the cain campaign continues to call the claims baseless. jeffrey toobin is our senior legal analyst. gloria borger is our chief political analyst. great to have both of you with us. let me start with you, gloria. you spoke to the national restaurant association today, and now that the lawyer said all right, the woman, multiple events but she doesn t want to give details, doesn t want to give her name. but now that the national restaurant association has allowed her to speak, does that now mean