we converge with people who want to talk to us about we are back here at 11:00 eastern and 5:00 p.m. eastern with the latest buzz. hello, everyone. i'm eric shawn. welcome to america's news headquarters. >> i'm may jamie colby. the real cost of obama care. there are growing concerns over the affordable care act's toll on the struggling u.s. economy. and a disturbing confession of a woman killing a man she met through craigslist. the shocking jailhouse interview and there could be even more victims. plus, there's a mega merger in the works. tom comcast buying time warner cable for a whopping $45 billion. it's good business for them, but

what does it mean for you and your next cable bill? but first, we start right now with obamacare and what it means to our health care coverage and our country. that's dominating the talk in washington again this morning. this time president obama's taking the heat after a change in obamacare that was repeatedly signed into law, that two dozen times since 2012 alone doing it without congressional approval. for some that raises questions from critics about whether the president may be overstepping his executive powers. national correspondent steve santoni is live in washington. steve, there were more changes this past week. >> reporter: that's right, eric. the latest firestorm was ignited when president obama made further changes to the employer mandate. the administration announced that medium-sized companies will have an extra year to comply with the requirement that they must provide health care coverage to full-time employees.

today on the talk shows members across the aisle are accusing the president of taking unilateral action to violate the constitution. >> this is a shameless act, a shameless power-grab designed to help the president and his political party achieve a particular outcome in a partisan election. and that's wrong. look, the constitution doesn't give the president duck power. this power belongs to the people. the people delegate that power to their senators and to their congressmen. >> now larger companies had already got an one-year reprieve from the employer mandate in obamacare. this time companies employing 50 to 100 full-time workers have more time to comply. democrats say this is only fair and is largely applauded by business groups. >> the same authority that every president has had to make sure that the laws are administered and executed in a way that helps all americans, the president simply is providing small businesses with the flexibility

they need to be able to start adopting the law. small businesses support the flexibility. >> the medium-sized company now has until 2016 to provide health care coverage. eric, back to you. >> steve, thank you so much. in a new study, the price to sign one person is more than $50,000 in one state health care exchange. $50,000. so when it comes to obamacare, do the pros outweigh the cons for the economy? coming up, we'll examine the question and look at the economic impact to. meanwhile, a florida jury was not able to reach a verdict on all the charges, they only reached a partial verdict in the trial of the man accused of killing a teenager over loud music. the jury finding 47-year-old michael dunn guilty on four or five counts, but failing to reach a decision on the highest count of first-degree murder. steve harragan has been following the case live in miami

with more. hi, steve. >> reporter: hi, jamie. that jury, eight whites, two african-american, one asian and one hispanic unable to reach an agreement on the charge of first-degree murder. they did convict michael dunn on four lesser charges including three charges of attempted second-degree murder. now each of those charges contain a penalty of at least 20 years, so the 47-year-old dunn will be going to prison, perhaps for as many as 75 years after the verdict. the mother of 17-year-old jordan davis said she would pray for the man who shot her son. >> it's sad for mr. dunn that he will live the rest of his life in that sense of torment. and i will pray for him. >> reporter: the prosecution has taken some criticism for what many say was overreaching on the charge of first-degree murder,

which requires premeditation. they said they will retry dunn on that charge. in the meantime, sentencing on the other four counts is likely to take place next month. jamie? >> thank you very much, steve, appreciate that. eric? jamie, rescue workers are planning to scour the colorado mountains today. they are searching for a pair of missing skiers. the officials say seven people were on top of the ridge that trigged an avalanche nears a penn. one of the most glamorous ski resorts in this country, three skiers were injured, two able to walk away unharmed. the two others are still unaccounted for. donna donatelli is live from the west coast newsroom with this. hi, donovan. >> reporter: hi, there. it's been a tragic ski-season across the united states. this latest avalanche coming 5:00 p.m. mountain time reported on highway 82 about seven mile west of twin lakes village. as you were saying, seven skiers

reported on that ridge by the office of the emergency management of lake county. three in the hospital, a broken leg and possible rib collapse. two miraculously walking away completely untouched, but not entirely sure what has happened to the other two people that were up there. at first light today rescue workers started hashing out a search plan. we don't know how far they are into looking for the bodies at this moment. the colorado avalanche center said it was a large slide above or near the treeline, so that could be about 10,000 feet or so. now, they put out a warning about 7:00 a.m. yesterday saying this particular area was prone to avalanches and that it was not going to be a good day to be skiing in avalanche territory. the problem being that you've got a lot of fresh snow on a top of a lot of basically mushy snow after a change in weather temperature. and that made it particularly perilous on top of that. in fact, just days ago the emergency services were saying, look, the whole area is dangerous.

take a listen. >> backcountry skiers could find a place that hadn't been tested all year, and then, you know, the potential is any of those layers all the way to the very base layers could fail. and that's why we're seeing very big avalanches at this time. >> reporter: so in colorado for the rest of this presidents' day holiday weekend, we are seeing avalanche warnings in place. 12 people have died so far this winter. 6 of those in the past week alone. and the most latest of those was in oregon with the bodies of two skiers still being stuck on the mountainside because rescue workers can't recover them due to the severe weather we have had in the west. back to you. >> dominic, it can come on so suddenly and it is frightening as we saw in the video. thank you so much. >> a mega media merger is in the works. cable giant comcast wants to buy competitor time warner for $45 billion. if that deal is finalized, it will result in the largest cable

and internet service provider ever with the potential customer base of 30 million households. what will it mean for your wallet, though, when your bill comes? if the merger takes place? brenda put ner is a senior business correspondent in bulls and bears. brenda, everyone has cable in america, and cable bills have been on the rise, so why would the merger necessarily mean higher prices? >> well, a couple of things. time warner offers unlimited data streaming from the internet. comcast does not. so that's one issue that they may have to negotiate over. and this really builds comcast's footprint in the united states by more than a third. so it's a big, big merger. and traditionally you think mergers cut down on competition, but, you know, the cable company is kind of like the electric company. there's no competition in your particular city. but we do know that when comcast in its home city of philadelphia, it fought off

competition from a competitor rcn. it also didn't let dish tv and directv have access to its sports network. so it may fight a little bit. >> has time warmer been up for sale? >> pardon me? >> has time warner cable been up for sale? are they looking for someone to come in? >> there's a lot of talk they would be acquired. and comcast is trying to get bigger. we thought by nbc universal, which is very interesting, because now it has what it called vertical integration, it does not just provide internet and cable but it provides content. so it may be able to squeeze content providers, too, like netflix and the rest. and that -- that's a concern. >> they are already concerned. and a lot of consumer groups plan to fight this. it needs to be approved by both the fdc and the justice department. so it's not a done deal yet. >> that's my question. in the old days, you used to see companies that wanted to acquire all the competition, and they were stopped by anti-trust laws

so there would be competition and pricing would be competitive. there wouldn't be one company that owned everything. >> yeah. >> have they reached that level? >> well, it's coming close. and the fdc is concerned. the problem is that the rules for cable were introduced before they started bringing on broadband and providing wi-fi and home security networks. they have grown a lot. so the fcc hasn't had as much regulatory over them. so that may change as well. >> will comcast have to provide the services that time warner cable does? because as you said on streaming, they limit their customers where time warner already advanced to an up limited situation. >> that's a big question. they do plan to offer things like start back and start ahead and look back, which basically enable you to look at video if you don't have a dvr for three days. that's what time warner offers. and comcast plans to keep

offering that. also, time warner has a lot of wi-fi hot spots. it's expected that comcast would allow that as well. those are the kind of negotiations with the fcc and the consumer group, so it's going to be going on. >> timeframe for this? >> probably a year and a half. >> anything that consumers can do if they really like -- we had, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, and that turned out not to be the case. so if you like your cable company, you can't keep your cable company? >> well, you probably can't have cable, that's what it comes down to. because there's one provider, usually in every area. >> that's incredible. there's also fios, right? >> yes, like verizon. it's a big competitor, but it's not everywhere. >> brenda, very good. thank you for bringing us up-to-date on it. eric? if you like your fox news channel, you get to keep your fox news channel, i hope. well, in south africa there's a rescue mission going on right now for some trapped miners. they say as many as 200 illegal miners reportedly became trapped

by falling boulders in an abandoned gold mining shaft happening in the eastern suburb of johannesburg. nine of the miners have been brought to the surface. they expect others to be brought up, too. illegal mining, by the way, has been a pretty common practice in south africa. meanwhile, a bomb has exploded on a sightseeing bus in egypt marking the first attack on tourists since the bombing on mohammad morrissey in july. what it could mean for the future of terrorism in that country up next. plus, the u.s. and iranian nuclear talks. a waste of time? well, that's what our international expert is saying. he'll be here to elaborate, coming up. and more delays and changes for obamacare. we have been reporting about that this morning as the white house tweaks to make changes, but now republicans are accusing the president of abusing his power. are they right? a fair and balanced debate on that, next.

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time for a quick check of what's happening around the world. israeli police confirming there are three deaths from a blast on a tourist bus in egypt's sinai peninsula. as many as 13 injured. those on the tour bus are believed to be south korean and local egyptians. snow is wreaking havoc on japan being blamed in the death of a dozen people since friday. the snow paralyzing traffic on the ground and in the skies there and causing widespread power outages. and an unruly passenger kicked off a plane after being forced to make an emergency landing. the flight was en route to london from chicagolanding instead in newfoundland. the passenger reportedly refused to listen to the flight crew's instructions and had to be detained. well, the president say os obamacare will be seen in ten years as a monumental achievement. there's new questions this morning about the cost and the effect on the economy. the investors' business daily

reports lagging sign-ups threaten the exchanges and the price tag has soared. the actual cost to set up the state-run exchange for each person enrolled in hawaii, for example, is more than $56,000 a person. look at washington, d.c., more than $26,000. in massachusetts, more than t-pright now the national avera is just under $2,000. supporters say obamacare will eventually help the economy, but others argue the exchanges will face deficits and not enough people are signing up. which is it? robert is here with a member of the house financial services committee and is in sarasota, florida. congressman, welcome. >> good afternoon to you. >> well, the white house says the numbers that they want to try to reach this month are there, they say in time obamacare will work, do you agree? >> well, the staggering numbers that you just listed, they have not been able to reach their objective. they need 7 million people by

the end of march. less than 3.3 million people now. this law, this lack of the number of people who are signing up is going to create an unbalanced risk pool. if they don't work, what happens? their losses incurred by the underwriters and the law is written there that the american taxpayers will make up the difference. it's called a risk pool corridor. and those losses sustained by the failure of this plan will be the responsible of the american people. >> did they design it that way to spread out the cost to taxpayers? >> well, it wasn't intended, but they made the american taxpayer culpable for having to be there and to support this failed system. you know, the cbo just came out to say there's 2.3 million job losses over the next decade. what does that tell you? that tells you that this system designed to create jobs, nancy pelosi said it created 4le jobs,

4 million jobs, 400,000 immediately, but now we are losing jobs because people don't want to go to work because they lose part of their subsidy. this is a failure. nancy pelosi says, my goodness, this is wonderful and great for the american people. they can pursue their portion of dreams to be a painter. this is lipstick on the pig. this is hurting the economy, hurting jobs, hurting people to build their lives. >> excuse me for interrupting, that's not job losses, but that means that people then won't have to work to get health care. >> well, people need to work. our economy -- who is going to make up the difference for the loss of jobs? yes, it is the american taxpayer who will bake up the difference. that cost comes out of his weekly or by-monthly paycheck. the very people they aspouse to represent, the middle-class america, those are the ones to pay the difference. we do not have a plan that is going to sustain itself. >> meanwhile, they have six weeks to go. we'll take a look at the

numbers. 3.3 million have been signed up so far. they need 7 million by the end of next month. so by march 31st they need to more than double the numbers so far. do you think they will get that? and congressman, do you think they will get the right people, they say about half, more than half are over 45 years old. they need more younger people to make this thing work. >> well, they need 40% to be younger people, younger people by nature believe they are invincible, particularly when you have a plan that says if you have a pre-existing condition, that's when you need or can buy into the plan. so it's not a good model to begin with. so there's an all-out effort in campaign right now to make this plan so it's sustainable. you need to have a balanced risk pool. you need to have actuals that really work. >> bottom line, what do you think will happen? how will this work? what do you see for the future? and in terms of our health care for us being covered, someone

said their insurance rate went up three times. someone else was waiting for a cortisone shot for three days when their insurance policy company, they call could and like that they would get approval. >> max baucus said this is a train wreck. that's what we have. americans and the republicans have an alternative plan. we believe in a market-driven approach. we believe that we can have a plan that is between the patient and the physician. it is come pettive between companies across state lines. it does cover a risk pool for those with a pre-existing condition. at the same time, it addresses the unwarranted litigation by attorneys who seek to pursue this for their own interest. 30% of the tests performed by physicians today are done to protect themselves from litigation. we need a market-driven approach. a centralized planning has never worked. it's not working now. and that's why republicans will

come forth with an alternative plan. >> wow, the democrats in the white house say it will work and they say it's supporting it and all systems go. so we'll see how it shakes out. >> the numbers aren't working for them. >> all right. thank you, congressman. as always. meanwhile, secretary of state john kerry is raising awareness abroad. what he's saying about climate change and where he's spreading that message? and the craigslist serial killer's case. getting even more interesting and frightening, too. after one of the accused killers says the murder she's accused of is not the only one she's committed. spokesperson: we decided to settle this. a steel cage death match of midsize sedans. the volkswagen passat against all comers. turbocharged engines against...engines. best in class rear legroom against other-class legroom. but then we realized. consumers already did that. twice. huh. maybe that's why nobody else showed up.

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and a startling new development to talk about in the craigslist murder case, eric. >> you take it. >> all right, i'm take it. on craigslist you hear a lot of things that happen on there, and a woman in pennsylvania is accused of killing a man last year and now is claiming in jailhouse interviews that she's killed more than 20 people across the country as a member of a satanic cult. the revelations came in the jailhouse interview with a local newspaper. and brian is following these stunning developments. she's pretty young, too, and now is claiming to have killed all these people. it's an amazing story, brian. >> 19-year-old miranda barber confessed friday night this in the jailhouse interview that she and her 22-year-old husband killed troy laferara on craigslist offering him sex. she said there are at least 22

other victims. the disturbing phone interview came from inside the prison in pennsylvania friday night. miranda gave chilling details of the night of the murder stabbing the victim 20 times as her husband strapped a cord around his neck. he said the wrong things, quote, and then things got out of control, she says. i can tell you he was not supposed to be stabbed. my husband was just supposed to strangle him. when asked about her alleged dozens of other victims in alaska, texas, north carolina and california, she said, quote, i can pinpoint on a map where you can find them. when i hit 22, i stopped counting. miranda says she will lure her victims in, study them and even become their friend, but only kill bad people. the majority of her murders took place in alaska where she says she joined a satanic cult at age 13, shooting and murdering her first man with the help of the leader of the cult.

though miranda has offered these details about the alleged 22 other murders, some police in pennsylvania are taking her claims very seriously working with investigators from other states and the fbi. police are interviewing the recordings, they are actually looking at the recordings of friday night's jailhouse interview. prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. and they want to try the couple together. miranda told the newspaper she has no regrets and doesn't care if anyone believes her. she just wants to stop living a lie. she ended the interview by saying she doesn't want to get out of jail because if she was released she would continue to kill. jamie, just a bizarre and stunning interview on friday night. >> yeah, no matter what, it sounds like a setup for an insanity plea. follow it and let us know what happens. >> will do. we'll switch gears a bit. i want to tell you about new numbers now showing just how frustrated americans are over obamacare. according to the new fox news

poll, more than half of you, more than half wish the law was never passed in the first place. what's more eye-opening is the breakdown of those of you who felt this way, including a 55% majority of young people under 30. you know how important the young people signing up is to the success of the affordable care act. also 52% of voters with an annual household income of under $50,000. and even more than a quarter of democrats. with more on this, dave mercer, former deputy finance director for the dnc and angela mcgowan, a fox news analyst. welcome to both of you. >> thank you, jamie. >> pleasure to be with you. >> these are pretty startling numbers, david, including a quarter of democrats who say they really wouldn't have gone forward with obamacare if they knew what they know now. what do you think? >> two things, one, they are startling numbers, but so too are the startling numbers of those that have enrolled in the

affordable care act being nearly 3.1 million people to say nothing of the millions of young adults that now have health insurance policy using or being on their parents health insurance. and that is really the poll that counts. >> why? tell us why is that more important? >> sure. because those people become actual witnesses and give the testimony to why the affordable care act is working for them, if they have pre-existing conditions, and now in fact have health care. or those that have seen their premiums go down. or those adult that is didn't have health insurance that now do. and as you see more of them coming online to the affordable care act, you will hear the positive stories. then the polls will catch up with those stories and reflect more the reality of those who are benefiting from the affordable care act. if i might point out, jamie, you have that happening, if you look at governors, especially republican governors in utah,

arizona, ohio, they are running to the affordable care act to make it available to their constituents so that they have access to the same things that those who have enrolled are benefiting from. >> angela, david brings up the point that many people now, another million people in january, were able to actually sign up for it, so if we partially at least move past the problems of the website and we do know that those under 27 can be covered on their parents' policies, if the parents can afford the coverage, that is, those are all good things, but in the meantime there are a lot of people that are not covered, who don't have jobs or can't afford it, or are frustrated by the process leading to the high numbers, especially i'm somewhat compelled by 55% of those under 30 who may be included in that group david says who also say they wish it was never passed. >> and jamie, you're right, but the good does not outweigh the

bad. and all of these youngsters under the age of 30, they supported president obama. they voted for him. but if you look at the cbo report saying that we could lose over 2 million jobs, if you look at the fact that they are saying now some of your pre-existing conditions might not be covered, and the fact, too, when president obama talked about introducing this legislation, it was 10 million people that did not have insurance. you have over 5 million people that have lost their insurance. but david is so happy and so optimistic that we have over 3.1 million people who have signed up. bottom line is this, jamie, the democratic party needs to stop dreaming and look at reality. but when you have a democratic leader, nancy pelosi, that says the affordable care act guarantees life and pursuit of happiness, that's a problem. >> i want to ask you about this other poll, david, and i'm going to come back to you, let me just put up the other one also, the fox news poll, in the end l the health care law be a good thing for the country? this includes people who were

taking advantage of this and those who are not, but a majority, 51%, but only 42% say it's a good thing 5, 1% say it's a bad thing. full disclosure in telling me where you think america is on the affordable care act, by any chance, are you an enrollee? >> i am an enrollee. i can also testify to the merit and the benefits of the affordable care act. and i became an enrollee easily through the website. >> good for you. >> thank you. with regard to the question, look, to be fair and balanced as we always like to be here, if you look at the gallop poll, there's a gallop poll, 9,000 polled, and with regard to is health care helping the affordable care act helping america, it is. and the fact that they have found a decline in the number of uninsured from 17.3% to now 16%.

so we, with reference to what angela said earlier, yeah, it is 3.1 million people and counting. and there are going to be more. and as the states are beginning to institute or implement the affordable care act, and might add in those states with republican governors, you are going to see those numbers increase. and you're going to hear more stories of the benefits of the affordable care act. >> all right, i'm not going to be able to ask the question i wanted to, was yet can we equate those successfully enrolled to those successfully getting the care they need? i'm going to ask you that question next time, david. off lot of time now to prepare. >> no, i can tell you now, jamie, no, no, no. >> okay. we'll debate that next week. i'm going to put in that request. guys, thank you so much. great to see both of you. >> you too, jamie, bye. jamie, new talks on iran's disputed nuclear program in vienna in 48 hours, but is it

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getting a nuclear weapon. my policy is not containment. my policy is to prevent them from getting a nuclear weapon. it would undermine our nonproliferation goals and it could potentially fall into the hands of terrorists. >> that was president obama talking about iran getting a nuclear bomb. our next guest says the talk sadly could be a waste of time. here's the professor at georgetown university and the author of this new book, "a time to attack the looming iranian nuclear threat." he also worked as a special adviser for the obama administration at the pentagon. why do you think this is the only way to stop iran and not the talks? >> it's important to point out, if we can solve this diplomatically, that would be the best outcome. if iran were willing to

dismantle the program peacefully, but we have to be realistic. president obama says there's a 50/50 chance to solve this and get a diplomatic deal. personally, i think that estimate is high. second, the deal that the administration is pursuing doesn't necessarily solve the problem. it allows iran to continue enriching uranium, so there's a better chance we won't solve this through diplomacy alone. >> so you think a 50/50 chance from the president is high? >> i think it is high. many people are opposed to this deal in principle, but we have to remember going back to the revolution in 1979 is built on resistance to the west. the legit macy comes from resisting the united states. the supreme leader regularly refers to the united states as satan. crowds go to the mosque and every friday and chant "death to america." this is like making a deal with

the devil. >> what kind of deal with you have if they are chanting death to the negotiator of the united states? >> the deal is not atratractiveo their point of view. so i think they are trying to have their cake and eat it too. they want to negotiate to get sanctions relieved but don't want to give up the nuclear program. if building the weapons would help achieve their goals of deterring attack and becoming the most dominant state in the region, they want sanctions relief and nuclear weapons, too. the goal from the united states is going to be to get a deal that significantly reduces iran's nuclear capability but getting that deal is going to be very difficult as i mentioned before. >> do you think they are having their cake and eating it too? they have had some sanctions relieved, but they have not dismantled one thing. nothing has been destroyed. as you write in your book, you

write they would like to be a lengthy state. what the you mean by that? >> they are enriching uranium and it can be done to create fuel for nuclear power, so that's what iran claims it is doing, but there's good reason to believe what they are actually doing is producing fuel for nuclear weapons. so as long as they have this ability to enrich uranium and create the fuel, then they essentially have the ability to produce a nuclear weapon. so that's the key in negotiations. we need to get iran to stop enriching uranium. but as i mentioned before -- >> they are continuing to do that violating six u.n. resolutions. >> that's exactly right. six resolutions and they need to stop enriching uranium. the deal we reached in november allows them to continue enriching uranium and it looks like a comprehensive deal we are pursuing now would also allow them to continue enriching uranium and that's a mistake. to be truly comprehensive of the

deal, we would have to get iran to stop enriching uranium. >> they said they are not going to to do that and will enrich uranium forever, so possibly the talks will probably fail. what happens then? what happens if there are air strikes? is that the only way to stop this? what kind of retaliation could there be? if there are air strikes, that would lead to war and incredible unrest and retaliation byiran. >> well, there are only three options. if we can't solve this diplomatically, we have a tough choice between either conducting air strikes on aaron's nuclear facilities to setback the program or giving up to allow them to have nuclear weapons. as the video montage was cede barack obama, he'll use force if necessary. if talks fail, this is where it's headed to a military confrontation. now, a military strike is a bad option in many ways, but it would set the program back, buy

us time and create the possibility that iran builds nuclear weapons. there are downside risks including military retaliation, but these are less serious than living with a nuclear armed iran for decades to come. >> may 15th is the deadline of the talks as they continue. we'll see what happens when they get there. matthew, your new book is "a time to attack" makes these arguments. thank you for joining us on the fox news channel. >> a construction project underway in a major city could be one for the record books. the crews there are attempting to do what has never been done before. they are building what will be one of the tallest buildings in the country. i'm going to tell you a lot more ahead. when jake and i first set out on our own, we ate anything. but in time you realize the bett you eat, the better you feel. these days we both eat smarter. and i give jake purina cat chow naturals. made with real chicken and salmon,

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the black flag of the islamic state of iraq has been raised in baghdad. >> remember the war in iraq, the been there, done that war president obama repeatedly has taken credit for ending. mission accomplished to borrow a phrase from his predecessor. iraq once more is burning. bombings and executions of

civilians are now daily occurrences and last month alone more than 1,000 civilians died in attacks from al qaeda and other terrorist franchises. the black flag of al qaeda flies over the cities, epic battles in the marine corps panteon. we could have told you so say the cynical. yet there is no escaping the lessens of iraq and afghanistan. endless war never was an american option. sherman long ago declared war is too serious a matterer to leave to soldiers. we guess that's why we hear reports of hundreds of contractors, millions of americans streaming to iraq. it's a new kind of army that makes a profit for the defense industry without burdening

taxpayers. taxpayers will ante up for the $6 billion in military equipment. secretary of state john kerry, the vietnam vet who years ago testified against his country assures us no american boots will land in iraq. instead the contractors will be tasked with training how to use the attack helicopters, missiles and recondrones we are sending. there is talk of retraining in sophisticated weapons. now, all of this has a familiar ring prompting the old speculation about when a contractor becomes an adviser and when an adviser winds up a

combatta combattant. meanwhile terrorists of all stripes leaped across iraq's border to create mayhem, complicating the morass assuring no power in his government. he is also allowing iran to fly over iraqi air space so it can deliver arms to the syrian government against the rebels. to further sustain his leverage in dealing with the u.s. malaki purchased headquarters from russia what's disconcerting is the white house emphasis on the policy in iraq, a holestic strategy in an approach that asserts the only way to understand iraq is by

recognizing the whole of the society, not just its parts. come on, guys. it is a little game to be silly. next thing you know resurrecting coins, the spectacularly failed insurgency doctrine flogged by the disgraced david petraeus. the u.s. must accept its share of missteps. had president obama been able to secure legal protection for our troops in 2011 we would have left some u.s. presence in iraq on the way out. but as we now know from the memoirs the war in iraq never caught his interest. the president in perpetual aloof mode has turned over the prickly job of dealing with malaki to joe biden. one can only imagine the

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