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Coverage. America reports thank you for joining us. Im sandra smith in new york. John im john roberts. The story starts right now with martha picking up the coverage. Martha . Martha thanks very much. Good afternoon. Im martha maccallum. Were going to go live to tel aviv in just a moment with israeli Prime Minister netanyahu to get new information on this developing scene. You can see the pictures that have just come in from gaza city and the city where they believe an israeli air strike struck a hospital. Theres a lot of questions about how all of this happened. The Israeli Military says hospitals are highly sensitive buildings and are not idf targets. General petraeus who commanded our troops in iraq and afghanistan will be with us in moments. First, we go to Senior Correspondent mike tobin live in israel with the very latest. Hi, mike. Martha, this development at the hospital in gaza city is taking all the attention right now. The Palestinian Health Ministry Says the civilian casual
HamasPartReportingOrganizationClaimsJohn-robertsRocket-misfiringBiden-tomorrowMarthaInformationMeetingTragedyI don t think we can legitimately be accused of doing anything unwised or unprincip unprincipaled. our job was to achieve our objective at minimal cost to us and that s what happened. how americans and how iraqis experienced the war is radically different. american troops have very little loss of life. very little bloodshed as opposed to the iraqis, both soldiers and civilians. on february 27th, the president meets with his closest advisers in the oval office. many advisers said take baghdad. he is still a bad actor, saddam hussein. why not finish the job? he could have decided to capture saddam hussein but his legal mandat was to liberate
JobAmericansObjectiveCostUnprincip-unprincipaledAnything-unwisedGulf-warLifeTroopsIraqisBloodshedAnd that s what happened. how americans and how iraqis experienced the war is radically different. american troops have very little loss of life, very little bloodshed opposed to the iraqis foot soldiers and civilians. on february 27th, the president meets with his closest advisors in the oval office. many advisors said, take baghdad. you still have a bad actor in saddam hussein. why not finish the job? he could have decided to capture saddam hussein but his legal mandate was to liberate kuwait from iraqi rule, and george bush knew, having years of large scale occupation of a foreign country, would only result in disdain for the united states, disgust for the united states and body bags.
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