plaza and came to the conclusion there was no way he could have got to kennedy in time to save him. he still lives with the guilt. brian todd, cnn. >> what a history. we'll watch "the sixties" at 7:00 p.m. here on cnn. thanks for joining us. smerconish begins now. tlooe years after the last u.s. troops pulled out of iraq, american military advisers are heading back in. the first of up to 300 advisers could be heading to work as soon as today. the mission, help iraq sunni militants who have overrun town after town and are 40 miles from backgrounds. i'm michael smerconish. let's begin. my first headline is from abc.

obama to send up to 300 u.s. military advisers to iraq. the president emphasized these special forces will not be in a combat role. to many, that sounds familiar. >> five american helicopters are shot down. three american advisers are killed, 63 vietnamese die. >> we've got u.s. military advisers flewing combat missions, advisers accompanying vietnamese forces. their role went beyond simply advising. >> my first guests are colorado congressman, mike kofman. also, phillip mud, cnn counterterrorism analyst and director of the counterterrorism center. that was from cnn about the sixties. is it deja vu all over again when it's 300 advisers going to

iraq, it could be a vietnam in the making? >> i don't think so. the president has been clear. there's a fundamental decision. trying to take back a city like mosul. i'm worried about the mission that is mission focused. we have the potential for expanding a threat of new york city. i want them taking out targets. that is different than getting involved in a civil war at the head of iraq al maliki. the distinction of running operations against threats of the u.s. or slipping into support for the civil war. big difference. >> congressman, i'm glad phil uses that verbiage. "the washington post" says shiite militias are cooperating with the iraqi army. you know this subject well. al maliki is relying on those

who once launched attacks on u.s. soldiers. >> well, if you look at the iraqi army itself, it's not far from being a shia militia at this point. a lot of the sunnis desserted from the army. this is a shia dominated government. fighting a sunni arab population where there is a popular basis for this uprising. so, you know, we have had this -- this coalition before where we had the jihadist elements and the local sunni arab militias come together as one. this really requires a political solution. i think the president was absolutely wrong to send these advisers in and take sides. it is a sectarian civil war. we need to put pressure on the al maliki government to reach out, to lay a foundation for reconciliation. i'm so pleased to see that the

leading shia cleric in the country has come out and said there's got to be a significant change in this government. >> your position is he shouldn't have sent 300 advisers. sit your position, also that we should have maintained more of a military footprint to begin with? >> i think, obviously hindsight is easy. i think the president, you know, wanted the narrative that, you know, he ended the war in iraq. i think that would have been helpful. you know, the situation is what it is right now. we can do a lot of finger pointing to this administration, to the prior administration for getting us into this. right now, we have to focus on looking forward and in looking forward, we need to understand the depth of the antagonism of the hatred between the shia and sunni populations of this country. we need to see it in those terms and we need to see it in terms

of political reconciliation. >> michael crowley wrote the cover for "time" this week. my take away was that this really isn't about iraq. this is about sunni radicals seeking to establish in that entire region. the sooner we come to terms with that, the better off we'll all be. your reaction? >> i think that's correct. we think of the world in terms of state lines. the people i used to fight against don't. they believe the war was passed down through a religious document and boundaries don't mean anything. on the flip side, you are looking at shia and how they view the world. you have iran at the center, the center of the shia universe. on one side, we have the americans getting out of afghanistan. they have a lot of influence there. we have nuri al maliki, a shia, taking over for saddam hussein

in iraq. assad looks more and more powerful every day and one step in the south in the past three, four decades lebanese hezbollah. for them, this world, sunni, shia is looking good. >> congressman, what i glean from that is that no number of u.s. military advisers or frankly troops on the ground is going to be able to answer this age old question of who should have been the successor to mohammad in the year 632. >> that's probably right. let me say this, having worked with the sunni arabs in 2005-2006. when they saw hope in terms of their future in iraq with an inclusive iraqi government, they turned on the radical elements, the jihadists and sided with us. so, that can occur again, if, in fact, they see a future in an

iraqi government. again, i'm encouraged by the statement about a fundmental change in the government to make it inclusive. we need to recognize, this is a political solution required, not a military solution, sending in 300 advisers without a foundation for reconciliation is taking sides. >> i hear so much in terms of a political debate here at home, phil about bush got us into iraq and obama took us out prematurely. wouldn't we be in this same position, five year, ten years down the road when saddam hussein died, the world was head in this direction anyway. >> all democracy is good all the time. when dealing in countries whether it's lebanon, syria, iraq with fundmental divides

there is a transition from democracy to stability. that is revolution. you are not talking a year of revolution, you are talking ten, 20, 30, 50. so, we got in the middle of a country that has kurd, sunni and shia. before we get stability, we are going to have revolution. >> congressman, stick around. phil mudd, thank you always. remember obama to deploy special forces to iraq. i would have written 300 military advisers. dick cheney is behind president obama. i'll talk to former ambassador about cheney's take and what the u.s. can do about iraq and the latest party to be offended by the name redskin. a branch of the u.s. government. was a truly amazing day. he was a matted mess in a small cage. so that was our first task, was getting him to wellness. without angie's list, i don't know if we could have found all the services we needed for our riley.

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headline, the collapsing obama doctrine from dick and liz cheney's op-ed criticizing president obama over iraq. one man familiar with dick cheney's handling of iraq is joe wilson. he's the former chief of mission to desert shield. let's recall the role ambassador wilson played. in february, 2002, the cia sent him to niger. wilson soon concluded the reports were unsubstantiated. president bush made charges about the effort to buyuranium, he questioned going to war with iraq in a piece for "the new york times." eight days later, his wife was outed as as cia officer. the betrayal of her identity

resulted in the conviction of the chief of staff on charges of perjury, lying to federal investigators and obstruction of justice. earlier, i had the opportunity to ask him about the crisis in iraq. >> i think those who talk about the president having withdrawn our forces too soon forget it was george bush who negotiated that agreement or the iraqis call it the withdrawal agreement prior to his leaving office. the bigger picture, i think now, is that iraq is in a very careless situation. i think it's only going to get worse. prime minister al maliki purged the sunnis from important positions. his troops, clearly in the sunni dominated areas of iraq. his troops treated them rather badly. there's been an opening for the terrorist group that did not

exist prior to our operation to lead a charge that is emerging as an uprising of the sunni tribes, as much as it is a terrorist action. i think it's going to get worse before it gets better. if i were advising the president and the administration, it would be to plan for the worst case scenario, put into place all the humanitarian supplies and personnel and medical supplies and food you need. bolster the efforts. i think there's going to be a refugee crisis between now and the rest of the year. >> what i don't hear you saying is there ought to be boots on the ground and there should be a military footprint of any kind. how far should the u.s. go with a military response to iraq? >> well, i'm not exactly sure what the mission is of the 300 advisers, but the mission should be limited to one thing, decapitating the leadership of the isil terrorist organization

and refrain from becoming involved in what is increasingly a sectarian war. >> you spent decades in the foreign service in service to the united states. i think you are well qualified to answer this question. mr. ambassador, what impact does it have on our world standing when a former vice president of the united states says about a sitting president of the united states that, quote, he makes empty threats, exercises meaningless red lines, led from behind, appeased our enemies, abandoned our allies and apologized for our great nation. all things cheney said about president obama this week. >> i find it unseemly, to say the least. the vice president receding into the background and being an elder statesman. i think he's probably trying to salvage his tatters reputation.

i think more than any sort of weakness on the part of the government, what is vice president has done is shown what a fool he is. >> finally, educate the rest of us as chief of mission in the country, what is it that you think, perhaps, many americans don't appreciate that you have knowledge of? >> the iraqis are very proud people. they defended themselves against iran in the 1970s. they have now fought two wars against us. i think they are bittered. i think we will have iraqis as enemies for the foreseeable future. it's a dangerous situation. it's possible between now and 18 months to see iraq break into three pieces. >> does that mean joe biden was pres yent? >> i think a lot of people in the run up to the war in 2003, people who knew something about the region predicted that as a possible outcome. >> finally, did we break it and

therefore do we own it? >> i don't think there's much we can do to repair it right now. i would be -- i think it's really up to the iraqis to try and find some middle ground. i think we can perhaps be helpful diplomatically. it's clear al maliki is one not to want to share power. i don't believe we should own it to the extend we put a lot of military assets on the ground except to deal with the isil threat. i think rather in anticipation of trying to improve our relationship with the sunni arabs, put our efforts into relief. for the vulnerable population that is will be caught in the cross fire of this civil war. >> mr. ambassador, thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. nice to be with you. that was ambassador joe wilson. recall, we started with the headline on the cheney op-ed,

the collapsing obama doctrine. what i would have written, real americans don't call a sitting commander-in-chief weak. the redskins get sacked by the federal government, but will taking their trademark force the team to change their name? don't count on it. also, a snatch and grab in libya. the u.s. grabs a terror suspect and puts them on a slow boat to d.c. is that legal? bulldog: ah, the dog days of summer!

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okay, should the washington redskins change their name is the first question. >> yes. >> yes, sarah silverman says, alone. >> yes. >> yes. >> everybody says yes. okay. >> it feels weird at first. >> there's a linguist at smithsonian who looked at the history of the term and concluded, a guy with real credentials saying it was a phrase that native americans coined for themselves. i think the history is not as clear as people complaining today make it out to be. that's what i said a couple weeks ago with bill maher. the washington redskins took it this week. the damage could be to the bottom line. that, after the patents on their

own name were tossed out. here is the headline from "the washington post." federal agency canceling redskins trademark registration saying the name is disparaging. my guest is simon smith, a member of the nation. you heard what i said on bill maher's program. i was making reference to this report where it began with benign con notations. you don't find it persuasive? >> no. look where it's been. red skin scalps indians. scalps with fresh redskins. it has a brutal history. it hurts the mental health of our kids. >> i read the opinions on this decision this week. in the decent, mark made the point, the question is not whether it's disparaging today in 2014, but rather was it

disparaging in, for example, 1967 when the trademarks were initially protected. in 1967, i doubt you were around or paying attention. >> wasn't born. >> good for you. of what significance if then it wasn't regarded as a disparaging term. >> just because people weren't listening doesn't mean we weren't fighting against all stereotypes. we have the late american indian movement. it's just now with the media, the proliferation of the media, everybody can hear us. there's a native american voice and it's in the realtime. the letters to the editor don't go ignored. the native american has never stopped speaking, it's just now people listen to us through this platform. >> how far would you take it, cleveland indians, kansas city chiefs, utah utes. central michigan chippewas.

would you pull those mascots and names in each circumstance? >> all of them. >> all of this? >> all of them. >> i understand redskin is it. kansas city chiefs, they want a name associated with strength, associated with their football franchise z. >> we have heard these arguments for a long time. that's the difference. we were raised knowing chief is not a pra jorty. the study shows that the native american kid is negatively affected by these mascot images. the native american kid goes in with an idea that it's supposed to be positive. they have a lower sense of self-worth. that's the imper cal study. we are fighting for the kids. people can call the adults pc what they want. we are fighting for the future of our kids. here in the united states, native american children haven't always been the focus. we know that. there was the indian child

welfare act. the government stepped in saying we messed up, we stole them away and tried to christianize them. they didn't succeed. here i am. this is a situation, again, where we are looking at the future generations of native americans. we are 1% of our population in our own country. everything about us could be on the brink of extinction if we don't act now. >> thank you. i appreciate the passion, by the way, that you bring to the discussion. if you want to bring the entire op-ed, cnn.com. remember the headline, federal agency canceling redskins trademark registration. says name is disparaging. the way i would have written it, government shouldn't police sports names, owners and fans should. coming to america, the suspect in the benghazi attack is in custody. should the next stop be a courtroom or a small room at gitmo? also, political funnies, we

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a slow go to the united states, that's where khatallah finds himself right now. the benghazi attack suspect is on a u.s. navy ship a week after having been captured in libya. libya demands return of benghazi suspect seized by u.s. forces. eric lewis is an attorney who specializes in cross border disputes. and also back with us is congressman mike kaufman, republican from colorado. how long is too long for someone to be held in guantanamo without a trial, in fact without charges

or a trial? >> well, first of all, i think it's how do we see this? the fact is that when terrorists attack american targets, to me, in my view as a marine corps combat veteran, it is an act of war. the administration, obama administration views it as a criminal act. so, as i view them as combatants, enemy combatants. there ought to be held until there's cessation of belligerent rant activities. in 2003, '04, '0v. i didn't want to hear the words habeas corpus. i'm unsettled by the idea there's men in guantanamo who haven't been charged or sent to trial. we are in iraq, about to get out of afghanistan, at some point,

doesn't enemy combatant lose it's relevance? >> well, i think you have to review that. it is. we are in a very different environment than we have ever historically been in. these are irregular forces that are sworn to a particular ideology and that or often not sponsored by any state and so, it is a difficult position. we are in a state of war. and the attack on our embassy in our consulate in libya is a reflection of that. i think we have to recognize that. we have to recognize that these are not common criminals. >> counselor -- counselor, mr. lewis, lindsey graham said this week the words khatallah should never hear are the words, you have a right to remain silent. why is he incorrect, according

to to you? >> there's been this sense for all these years somehow our legal system isn't up to the job after 225 years. terrorism has been arnds for a long time. the attack on the benghazi consulate is a terrible crime. our system can try it and punish it. since september 11th, there have been 500 people convicted of terror related offenses and they are serving sentences. in guantanamo, eight convicts, six by pleas and two after military conviction. they were overturned on appeal. guantanamo and the military commission has been a disaster legally, politically and morally. the idea that we can't do a trial, we can't get information from defendants is simply wrong. there's no support for it. guantanamo is a symbol of political football.

senator mccain, said it should be closed, so did president obama. that case is far, far stronger. >> congressman, isn't the big picture issue whether with regard to the war an terror, we are going to have a macro approach or sniper's approach, whether we are going to invade a country like afghanistan or whether we are going to send in s.e.a.l. team 6 and do the job. whether we are going to indict and hold trials or whether we are going to lock them up and throw away a key in a base like gitmo. isn't that a big picture question, congressman? >> well, i think there is a big picture question. i think the attack on benghazi was just referred by my boughter part as a terrible crime. it was a complex attack that involved mortars, automatic weapons, it was a well

coordinated attack by a militia group against a u.s. target in an attack on a consulate or an embassy is through international legal standards, all international legal standards, considered an attack upon the soil of that country of the united states in this case. so, we just have a very -- that comes down to the fundmental view. are they combatants or criminal conduct? in my view, as a marine corps veteran, this is clearly an attack upon the united states and they are enemy combatants. >> mr. lewis, i think sometimes the arguments against going the route of federal court insinuate this is is a weak approach. i was moved by the data i saw this week at the nyu security center that the federal court approach has been immensely

successful. >> we have a 91% conviction rate and we have a legal system that has been proved through history to be adequate to the task. the military commissions haven't. you also have to understand guantanamo is filled with men, many of whom have never been charged because they have never done anything. you can pull them in there and yesterday the house of representatives passed a bill to say don't let anyone out, no matter what they do. they are deteriorating. i have clients there who are on hunger strike or being force fed. there are innocent people there. that is not the american way. and you also have this week, the bush era official who was in charge of giving legal opinions on law of war issues say that you cannot have a military commission try these men at guantanamo or anywhere else

because under the statute that was passed in the bush administration, this is not defined as a war, it's defined as a crime. so the law doesn't support it and our legal system is not -- our legal system is strong and sends a message out to the entire world that we are a country of laws. our laws will take care of these things. we don't need to declare that the entire world has changed. we can torture them and do whatever we want. >> gentlemen, thank you. thank you. congressman, very quick, five seconds, sir. >> sure, the detainees in guantanamo were taken off the battlefield. we found a high rate where they return to the battlefield. >> thank you both. we appreciate it. that headline, again, we began with, libya demands return of benghazi suspect seized by u.s.

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talents of some of america's best political cartoonists as seen through their better work this week. this is randy of the pittsburgh tribune review. the way you should read this is i'm sure you'd understand, miss lerner my records were lost when my e-mail with my hard drive crashed. many made this observation, they wouldn't get much sympathy if they were in the position of lois lerner. republicans are seeing conspiracy in her hard drive having crashed. maybe i would buy in to that if i hadn't worked for the federal government. the feds have the worst gear and worst equipment and are behind the curve. norah give me a second one. this is from politicalcartoons.com. you can see elmo there coming

out of his mouth, today's show is brought to you by the letters omg and the number 47,017, which is a reference made to the 50,000 or so migrant children who are now in the process having come into the united states. although, i have to say about that controversy that i hear many describing it as a problem of our poorest borders. i acknowledge it's a problem, but not the poorest borders because they have been stopped and processed. the problem is one of a misinformation campaign taking place in central america that's causing them to be sent to the united states and that's what needs to be addressed. all right, norah, number three. oh, yeah. this comes from mike. he is tremendous, by the way, at the atlanta journal constitution. you see, this is jack in the bean stalk 2014 version. these magic beans didn't grow a bean stalk or help me lose weight.

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every four years, the world goes nuts for soccer or football or this year futball. this year, portugal is looking to go 2-0. check out the headlines where dishonesty is best policy, u.s. soccer falls short. the u.s. team is under fire for playing fair. joining me is laura, anchor of

cnn international's world sport live and greg, a former prosoccer player and now editor and chief for mlssoccer.com. what happened in brazil that got everybody thinking about this issue? >> the fact of the matter is this is a divisive topic of diving or pretending in soccer. depending on where you are in different parts of the world, they encourage diving, you know, if you are touched in the area, you go down, especially if you are not going to get a shot. that's how it is in italy, spain and portugal. it's not that way in england and american soccer players don't respect that. it is a part of the game. when it's a physical game or not physical, if you are in a position and something happens in the area, you want to drop. that's what i would say. most of my soccer mentality comes from

were you a flopper when you played? >> it depends on the situation. laura is right, if you're in the area where you're going to pick up a penalty kick and you feel a little contact, you might go down easily, awe i say. he went down easily or is looking for the contact. you're just telling the referee, hey, i just had some contact here, i want to get a penalty kick. now, some people call it cheating. i don't call it cheating all the time. sometimes it is cheating when there's very little contact or no contact, but it is part of the game. it's something that's been part of the game for a very long time. >> laura, is this a cultural issue? are we more reluctant to do it on the united states team than other cultures and teams? if so, who are the worst offenders of flopping? >> yeah, absolutely. the united states, they are -- it's a very hesitant thing, especially because historically not a lot of players on the u.s. national team played overseas. we're seeing that changing a lot with jurgen klinsmann was the coach. in italy, in spain, in different parts of the world, that's where you see a lot of diving or

flopping or trying to draw calls. i don't like to think of it as flopping. i don't like to think of it as cheating whatsoever. it's just something that is part of the game. >> you know, there's so many newcomers to the sport, i put myself in that category. for many of us, this is just a case of first impression. watching and seeing americans taking a dive, so to speak, they might not fully appreciate what you understand as a player. what would you say to them? >> i would say this, there's a cultural difference here. in the united states you're taught to compete all the time and try to compete on a level playing field in a fair way. i think that's important to remember. now, there are times in every game, and you've seen them in basketball, in football, people embellish things all the time. lebron james is a tremendous embellisher. you're trying to sell the referee on something. it only really works if there's true contact. you mention it had brazil/croatia game. there was minimal contact and the guy flopped. >> did that cross the line? >> that did cross the line.

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pew's president, alan murray, ran his own analysis. that ran under the headline "the divided states of america." and bruce stokes at pew offered his own take at cnn.com. this came under the headline "is america dangerously divided." he began with this paragraph. if you thought that political polarization in america was bad, think again. because it's worse than you thought. and if you're under the impression that dysfunctionality in washington is merely a product of partisan political gamesmanship on capitol hill, try again. because a new survey finds that divisions inside the beltway actually reflect a deep ideological divide within the u.s. public that manifests itself not only in politics, but in everyday life. like the headlines, that summary presages a pretty harrowing picture of the state of our discourse based upon the largest study of u.s. political

attitudes ever undertaken by pew, but i don't buy it. where others see confirmation that the divide among americans is akin to that which separates those we elect, i'm digesting data that offers hope in our need to get beyond gridlock. the undeniable bad news is that the number of partisans is on the rise, those myung us with consistently conservative and consistently liberal views have doubled in the last two decades from 10% to 21%. meaning that one in five americans are now part of this consistent class of the electorate. better news is that four-fifths of the country are not in that grouping of ideological uniformly and partisan animosity, a takeaway that you'd never have known unlessrused th survey. ideological silos are on the left and the right but the survey noted these sentiments are not shared by all or even most americans. the majority do not have

uniformly conservative or liberal views. most do not see either party as a threat to the nation. and more believe their representatives in government should meet halfway to resolve contentious disputes rather than hold out for more of what they want. in other words, most americans are centrists, disbelieving of the partisan hype they're fed by each of the parties about the other and they'd like to see compromise. now the pew data begs the question of why the composition of the congress, much less the modern discourse doesn't reflect the majority voices. and the answer is lack of engagement or, as the pew survey explained, many of those in the center remain on the edges of the political playing field, relatively distant and disengaged, while the most idea logically oriented and politically rank russ americans make their voices heard through greater participation in every stage of the political process. here's my bottom line. change will come only when the

passion of nonpartisans drives their participation. until then, it's apt to say that political power rests in the center where rests is the operative word. that's it for me. i'll see you back here next saturday. until then, have a great week. good afternoon. i'm rosa flores live in new york. here's what's making news at this hour. this information just in. four more iraqi towns fell today to the violent militant group called isis. these towns are in anbar province west of baghdad. now, one of them is a strategic crossing at the border with syria. cnn has learned that isis extremist fighters battled with iraqi soldiers with heavy casualties on both sides. >> mafia members, beware. pope francis says you're excommunicated. he said that today in a city where mobsters are known to

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