air. the eagle was found injured and starving as a baby. the new technology helping to document all of its rehabilitation. isn't that a beautiful shot? speaking of beautiful, wow! california is so beautiful! it's been wonderful being here for a short time. thanks for being part of "the real story" today. i'm gretchen. shep? thanks. there is chaos in iraq -- [ gunfire ] >> militants are threatening to march all the way to baghdad. so what is washington's next move, and specifically, what has happened and how has it happened? i'm sure you've heard lots of talk. we're going to lay out the facts about iraq. and we'll all hear from president obama. -- we'll also hear from president obama. a priest shot and killed and another one wounded in an attack on a catholic church. now the manhunt for the shooter. plus, former president bush 41 goes skydiving to celebrate his 90th birthday. he did a tandem jump with this

man who helped his land and saw him through. we'll speak with the man who did the tandem with bush 41 and what exactly happened with the landing. let's get to it. ♪ good thursday afternoon from the fox news desk. first, the potential collapse of iraq. a ruthless terror group is destroying the gains of almost nearly a decade of war. a war that cost the united states nearly a trillion dollars certainly and spilled american blood certainly, but more importantly to the iraqis, there are estimates that close to a half million iraqis died. now president obama says he will not rule out anything to keep these jihadists from taking control. [ gunfire ] >> we're told this amateur video shows the deadly gunfighting as extremists took over major cities. the group vows it push on to baghdad to -- vows to push on to

baghdad to settle old scores. they call themselves the islamic state of iraq and syria or isis. some people call them isis. they used to be called al qaeda in iraq, but al qaeda wanted nothing to do with them and in february tossed them out. they formed this. a group so brutal, so dangerous that even al qaeda tossed them. the u.s., of course, spent $17 billion to arm and train iraqi security forces thinking if we arm them and train them they'll do the work. they'll become nationalists. they'll become iraqis, not sunni and shia and kurds. in the thousand-year history of that country it had never happened, but america thought we could make it happen, and we were wrong. and 4,489 americans died in the process. and right now, iraq is in crisis, and its army is clearly on the run. the word is troops are deserting by the hundreds. reportedly stripping off their uniforms in the streets and leaving abandoned trucks.

we see uniforms in video everywhere. they took them off and ran. those who stayed behind are left disorganized and, frankly, defeated. defense officials in iraq are trying now to show that they are fighting back. they just released this video which they say shows a missile blowing up a camp of insurgents, but the iraqi air force has long been lacking in strength. president obama said today the u.s. has been giving iraq extra help, but it's time to -- now for to step up the assistance. >> that includes some cases military equipment, it includes intelligence assistance, it includes a whole host of issues. but what we've seen over the last couple of days indicates the degree to which -- [ technical difficulties ] >> that was weird, wasn't it? video doesn't always work perfectly when it comes from a computer. the president did say that he would consider military action of some kind when america's

safety is at stake. but the white house said later it is not considering sending ground troops in to iraq. now we showed you a map yesterday of where everything was happening over on the wall. the militant group controls a huge second of both syria and iraq. fallujah on top of it, baghdad not there yet, tikrit, hometown of saddam hussein, that's gone. kirkuk, they're close but not there. mosul, mosul is a city we're going to talk about in a minute because mosul is very important. it is at this moment at the center of all of it. i'll explain why and what happened in mosul because it is very important. right now they're on the move south toward baghdad. so aleppo, you see, close to that. this is a whole sort of califate that they're trying to create. these borders matter to everybody but them. they are sunni or shia. you see, the government here in iraq is a shia government. shia are the -- they are the majority in iraq. sunni are the minorities.

what they've said, the sunnis are like, you've been repressing us, you're not giving us a voice in government, you're not giving us a say in our own nation. you made it to do this or we're going to rebel against you, and now they have. the thing is, sunnis are the majority in the rest of this area, right? they've come from syria to help and back and forth. they've mounted this insurgence. we'll explain exactly how in a minute. as for the iraqi government, nuri al maliki, the prime minister, he's a shia and asked the parliament to give emergency powers. not enough lawmakers showed up, so they couldn't hold a vote. chaos and disarray. that leaves the iraqi people pretty much on their own. an estimated half million men, women, and children ran from their homes in the city of mosul alone. remember, the best estimates that we can get, imperfect, but the best we can get, indicate a half month iraqis have died in this conflict since we showed up there. now others have stayed behind, welcomed the violent invaders.

[ chanting ] >> that's because this is a shia and sunni conflict. remember, shia in charge, sunni feeling repressed. these are sunnis who have come in. many of these fighters aren't iraqi at all. many are syrian. a lot of them are iraqis. this amateur video reportedly shows crowds cheering as one of the militants rallies the crowds. the chants translate to "we sacrifice you, iraq, with our blood and souls." i want to get to jennifer griffin at the pentagon with more on this. this is much more complicated than it is being presented to the american people over the last two days. it is stunning to me the simplicity with which so many are presenting this. americans died, america spent a lot of money. america tried to make them -- the iraqis, they've never been that. they've been sunni and shia. now sunni are being repressed by shia, and sunni with the help of their neighbors in other countries have come together, and they're fighting this. and nuri al maliki, a shia and

prime minister, has by all accounts not been a good one. neither side likes him. he's got this government army which was trained for $17 billion of american money that goes, why am i going to back this nuri al maliki, what did he ever do for me? yet the sunnis who are uprising say, "we want a piece of this." they have real reason to go forward with a half a million deaths there. it's we have the will, and we don't have the will, isn't it, jennifer? >> shep, the thing we learned from general jack keene who has an intense knowledge of iraq is that maliki purged his military of any of the senior military leaders who had fought alongside the u.s. because he didn't trust them. so that is also a problem. and another myth in the reporting of the last few days about this conflict is that this has been coming for some time. didn't just happen overnight. the problems in iraq have been -- this has been going on for more than a year. and certainly since the u.s. pulled out. now fox news has learned from

senior pentagon forces that the request for u.s. air support manned and unmanned aircraft came from the maliki government in recent days as a result of t the near total collapse of his military. the iraqi government had been asking for u.s. military help for nearly a year. pentagon planners are busy working out multiple options should the white house decide to act. those options include drones, but few here at the pentagon think that air strikes are a viable option right now. and drones can only carry a few hellfire missiles which won't be a game changer. the u.s. began training iraqi special operations forces in jordan on monday. that training will last a month, shep. >> all right, jennifer griffin, thanks. i want to get to former special assistant to secretaries of state con leeases -- condoleezz and colin powell. we've been talking about this for a long time. here's the stunning part to me -- you've got to remember that these troops that are out there,

our viewers need to remember -- i know you know -- have gotten a lot of their weapons and ammunition and vehicles from this army which has melted around it. so that's where they're getting their ammunition and their vehicles. their money is coming basically from mob activities. it's organized crime within cities there, they rob from there one, steal from that one, and put taxes on that one. and they take that money and fight it. and then there was a new insurge of money. by all estimates, the group went in and took on an iraqi army in mosul of 12,000. and the iraqi army of 12,000 melted, left their weapons and their vehicles and everything there and left the bank unguarded. and the isis group, formerly al qaeda in iraq, which week kicked out back in february, got to that bank. what did they get? the estimate is $500 million. michael, we have a problem.

>> well, you're right. it's a serious problem, shep. and i would go back to what you said before. this is actually a very complicated situation. this group, isis or isil -- you'll see it both ways, they both mean the same thing -- is, in fact, a reincarnation of al qaeda in iraq. and has reportedly been joined by other groups. some of the former allies of saddam, the former sunni allies of saddam. it also operates, as you said, across the border in syria and is fighting bass aar al assad's group. it's 800,000 iraqi security forces in iraq, and what we've seen is that, as you said, they captured this money. they also capture good 400,0400,000 -- captured about 400,000 defense articles, pieces of equipment recently. sent some to syria and are using some inside iraq. it is rate now a real mess, and it is moving rapidly. >> and significantly, as this war began, this war that was about weapons of mass

destruction and not about regime change, when the war began we dissolved the iraqi army. some of the leaders of that army, unemployable by anybody's account, wanted to join up with something else. more recently, nuri al maliki did it again, we're not going to let you be there. we have a command and control structure that understands war and understands conflict very well. all of a sudden they also have all of these munitions which were ours, and they have all of these guns which were ours, and they have all of these tanks which were ours. and now they have a command and control structure. >> you know, shep, i wouldn't overestimate the capabilities of isis. they've performed well in terms of taking this territory. i think, frankly, that's more attributable to the fact that the iraqi army hasn't fought. they haven't performed well. >> that's right. >> and in fact, you have these underlying political divisions, as you indicated before, shep, which are fueling a lot of this sectarian conflict. the sunnis in iraq have a lot of

grievances against the central government there which they perceive as not ruling in their interests. frankly, there's also disputes between the kurds in baghdad as we've seen in recent days over thing like the regional -- the power of the regions and oil exports and things like that. and so what we see is that after u.s. troops withdrew in december of 2011, immediately all these sectarian tensions came to the fore, and frankly, a lot of that responsibility, i think, we would place at the doorstep of prime minister maliki and the way that he's ruled since then. >> exactl at the doorstep of prime minister nuri al maliki. but to suggest without even looking at any of the facts on the ground, i would hope, or maybe ignoring them and twisting them for your own political benefit, what really has happened here is had we left in 2011, the sectarian differences would have displayed themselves, as has been predicted since day one of this war. had we left in 2025, these differences -- because this is a long period of time to

americans. they've been at this for thousands and thousands of years. it's not as if some outside group, which we can track historically, can come in in the 900s and say, well, here are your countries. this isn't about that for them. this is sunni, sheia, and kurd for them. we can't change that. why would we think we could? >> obviously what u.s. troops are trying to do, what the u.s. government was trying to do is to heal rifts and build national institutions in iraq. and what we saw was that, you know, we can't know, shep, what would we have been able to, with the residual force there, helped to address any of this. would prime minister maliki have made the decisions he did if it weren't for this. i think you have to remember, shep, that there were proposals on the table to keep u.s. troops there. >> you bet. >> and a lot of the pushback came from iraqis. a lot of the pushback came from muqtada al sadr if you remember that night, militant shiite. it fell victim not just to

politics here but also to politics in iraq. and i think you're right, shep, that it is a complicated story. it's best not to oversimplify it. and i think it's important to realize that, you know, this hasn't been at the top of the u.s. agenda since then. i think that, frankly, political leaders should have been paying more attention to iraq since the u.s. u.s. withdrawal and since 2008. there have been military hardware, there have been training efforts, there have been other u.s. efforts. it's not as if we have totally left this behind. it is really a difficult situation, as you've indicated. >> and the facts indicates that you are right. that you cannot know the future. that in 2008 when we were making decisions, we could not know the future. you look back and find out the future was not as we predicted. just as when we went in to this conflict back in the very beginning, and we were told by analysts and leaders in our government that this war would last weeks. and we would be treated as liberators. we were wrong about that. we were wrong about this.

we were wrong that we could get nationalistic groups together as opposed to sectarian groups and tribal groups. we were wrong at every step of the way. now we're in a position where we're either going to help them, or the whole region's going to fall apart, and you'll wonder what do we do next. all you can do is wonder because politics has taken over. an. [ bop ] [ male announcer ] could've had a v8. two full servings of vegetables for only 50 delicious calories.

17 minutes past the hour. the released taliban prisoner, bowe bergdahl, is set to return to the united states hours from now. that's the word we've gotten now from top u.s. defense officials. they say they expect sergeant bergdahl to arrive at the brooke

army medical center outside san antonio sometime after midnight local time there. u.s. officials say that the army sergeant had been recovering at a military hospital in germany after the taliban freed him in exchange for five gitmo prisoners last month. earlier this week, pentagon officials said sergeant bergdahl was physically healthy enough to return to the united states but that he was not ready psychologically or emotionally, quotes from them. our correspondent has just arrived at brooke army medical center there. casey, what do we know about the plan for sergeant bergdahl's treatment beginning tonight? >> well, we know that once he gets here, he's going to have a team of medical doctors and psychologists waiting for him. one of the psychologists, it's important to note, that has been working with him overseas from the very beginning is traveling with him from germany. you know, this is a giant medical complex for the u.s. army at ft. sam houston. at the center of the command is this hospital component, the san antonio military medical center. that is where bergdahl will go

in the next phase of this reintegration process. 425-bed facility that not only addresses immediate physical, medical needs that patient ms m have but psychological. they have a unit here that sp specializes in transitioning troops from theater to stateside. we're told this is where he will be reunited with his parents for the first time. the timeline of how, when it's going to happen, still unclear at this point. >> what do we know about how sergeant bergdahl's arrival itself is going to take place? >> reporter: the u.s. military is keeping that under raps. that is for security reasons, especially now because of how high profile and controversial he has become. we expect two different scenarios really. sergeant bergdahl would be flown directly here to ft. sam houston if they have the ability to do that. or it's important to note that you have lockland air force base

not far away. only about 20 miles to the southwest or so. and that has obviously made the runways a giant air force installation capable of landing large military aircraft. so they may be better equipped if bergdahl is on a 65 or e-17. that 11-hour flight from germany to texas. regardless how he arrives in the overnight hours, we expect that even though we are all going to be here staked out, that we won't physically see him, shep. >> all right. thank you very much, casey, live with us. a quick fox news alert. breaking news now on fox newschannel. we gotten more word from iraq. this is troubling. our producer there has just given us word from a senior u.s. official who confirm that's american are now being evacuated from the air base which, if memory serves, is closer to tikrit but halfway between tikrit and baghdad.

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brand new information on iraq has just come in to us. americans being evacuated from base. i want to show what this is and explain why this matters. this is baghdad, right. these insurgent forces that we've been talking about, the isis, which used to be really sort of what used to be al qaeda in iraq, in between tikrit which is saddam's hometown that these insurgents have taken over and baghdad, the capital city of seven million, is an air base called balad.

's closer that to baghdad than i can credit. -- than tikrit. this is a base where the military was training them to operate drones and surveillance vehicles and helicopters. well, as is the case almost everywhere -- and you probably rarely hear -- mostly this isn't u.s. military personnel. we learned today only 12 u.s. military personnel are stationed at this base which we are now evacuating as a precautionary measure. but there are hundreds of contractors there, american contractors, hundreds of them there who are doing this training. they're still waiting to get out. three planeloads of it. so remember, the president said we're still helping them, we're still training them. they're also telling us that the embassy there is still operating as usual. when we can't -- but we can't be training them if we are bugging out, and we are now bugging out. remember yesterday our guests discussed how much this looks like vietnam. only in this specific way -- don't if off kilter on me.

in this specific way that in that week in may which the -- the cities began to fall and the army just melted away. that's what's happening here. and that's the parallel and the only one i kng of at t-- i can of. but the army is melting away and the insurgents are winning. we've evacuated this base. this is what they . have this is what they're trying to get in baghdad here. they have this already, they're in the way. we're getting out of the way. and that's just come to us from the state department. jen griffin, this sort of flies in the face of some things we were hearing earlier. >> well, it does. it's a complete contradiction, in fact. remember, those contractors who were at the base were showing the iraqi military, the air force, how to fly the f-16 fighter jets, for instance, or any of the helicopters or fighter jets that they have. we've heard today that the iraqi military started those air strikes. at the same time, the iraqi government is asking the u.s. to carry out more air strikes and send in drones.

and it's clear that if these contractors, these trainers pull out of balad and they close down that u.s. involve investment that air base there, that shows that there is a grave -- there's grave concern it these militants who are the march. balad is held in sunni territory. out of an abundance of caution, they are pulling the u.s. military out of that base. but it's going to be very difficult for the iraqi air force to continue operating without the help of the u.s. trainers who were there, shep. >> remember now, she talks about sunni and shia. this is hard to wrap our heads around, i get it. but the government there is a shia government, right? the -- >> that's correct. >> the shia are the majority in iraq. the majority shia are ruling. the prime minister, nouri al maliki is a shy amp the others are the sun -- is a sunni. the others are the sunnis, they are the minority. the military is falling by the

wayside and melting in the face of this insurgency which is sunni. now jennifer, one reason to evacuate this base is if these people whom we are training were to melt away in the face of this insurgency, that would leave americans and contractors to fight this insurgency. and if we get up in the middle of fighting this insurgency on iraqi territory, specifically on sunni-controlled territory, we got a whole new thing going on. >> well, i think what this symbolizes is that the pentagon and the u.s. government are not willing to have u.s. boots on the ground in iraq. they're not going to risk u.s. lives in iraq. the reason they're not evacuating the embassy is that it is safely ensconced, it's fortress like and in shia-controlled capital of baghdad. and so they're not feeling the threat yet to the embassy. but this base is surrounded by sunnis, and it was vulnerable. and they took the decision to pull the u.s. personnel out. >> and they took them out in planes, and they did it before they let anybody know about it, didn't they?

>> well, as one would do for security reasons, you would do this quietly. but we've now learned that that is what is taking place, and -- and that they've pulled -- they've basically put an end, put on hold that training mission of the -- of the air defense forces of the iraqi government right now. >> jennifer, stay with me. i want to remind viewers, this is happening so fast. a week ago, though there was rumblings of all of this stuff, a week ago, you couldn't have predicted that this was going to fall apart in a week. nobody did. certainly not nouri al maliki, not the government. remember mosul at the top, this one just fell, 800 insurgents versus 1,200 members of the army. the army melted away. the insurgents came in, got all the goodies that you used to carry out war, and got what we're told or led to believe is about $500 million from the bank. they all melted away there. now you're on your way south through tikrit, to this base where we are, and we're training their people. we obviously figure this

military may just melt away, so we can't leave our people to fight or get hurt or anything. but jennifer, that's not all that's there. also there are these weapons that you just mentioned. there are these helicopters, drones, there's everything else. you telling me we flew all of that out on these planes as we headed out of there at a moment's notice? w no, they're still there. either we blew them up so the insurgents couldn't have them, or they're there for the insurgents. do we know which of those it was? >> well, there is also a huge contradiction that you've just touched on, and that is that the pentagon and the white house said today that they are expediting foreign military sales to the iraqi government meaning they're going to speed up delivery of apache helicopters, f-16 fighter jets, other military hardware that the iraqi government had requested and had bought in recent months. they can't do that if they can't assure by law, they have to assure that those weapons won't fall in to enemy hands or in to

insurgents' hands. tauf both ways. you can't -- you can't have it both ways. you can't expedite without a waiver these military armaments going over to iraq if you can't confirm that they won't fall in to the hands of al qaeda and isis. >> what we can con sfifirm is t some have fallen into the hands. it happened in mosul. if they're on their way south, not just the equipment they were thinking about as they make their way toward fallujah and past this base that we're just talking about, it's not just equipment, it's also uniforms. they got uniforms when they were up in mosul. they got uniforms when they took over tikrit, uniforms of the iraqi military. can these members of the insurgency now without anybody's real knowledge in the middle of the fog of war end up right in the middle of the iraqi soldiers, the iraqi army, what's let of it, with their clothes on and hit them with what the iraqis would think is friendly fire? >> absolutely. in fact, you're already seeing

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again, breaking news from iraq in the last few minutes. americans being evacuated from the balad air base in america. there were 12 american personnel, they're out. they sent in three jets to get out these contractors. we don't really have any information on all that was left behind. as jennifer and i were reporting, they did training missions there. and -- full training camp actually for the iraq militariment remember, that's one of the things that we had vowed to do. the training part of what's left of the now-ended iraq war is said to be about $17 billion. we said, $17 billion to arm and train these iraqi personnel so that the government would be able to fight off any insurgency that might come along. what that was counting on was

that the government, the government of the prime minister, nouri al maliki, the shia, nouri al maliki, would be fair with the minority, the sunnis. that was what this was predicated on because you have to have an inclusive government where everybody has a voice in something that's trying to be a democracy otherwise the minority will rise up. and in this case, because the minority has a lot more ties to itself than to its nation and it has a lot of help from over in syria, it's a relatively strong force. these sunni who have made up this isis come not just from iraq where sunni is the minority but from over here in syria where they've obviously been fighting a civil war for like three years. they are battle-tested and hardened. some of the leaders of this group came from the iraqi military because nouri al maliki, the prime minister, who didn't really trust the americans in all this, said you've been standing on the side of them, you're out of our military. instead, they went over to fight

with this group that's trying to take this up. not because it's anti-government, it doesn't sink government, it sinks sunni/shia. their ancestors have had this conflict for years. most disturbing when you bring iran into the mix. the iranians, they're all about the sunni bunch. they're all aligned with all of this. so the fear among some analysts now is -- i'm not reporting this is about to happen, i'm telling you what analysts are fearing because it's moving so quickly. you're trying to predict what's going to happen next. what if the iranians say, yeah, we might -- we might just want some of that because we've got all of these sunnis who are there, they agree with our cause. not with the cause of nouri al maliki. nouri al maliki hardly has any friends. jennifer griffin is back with us from the pentagon i believe. jennifer, i wonder what the level of concern is that -- that the sunnis from iran are going to see this as an opportunity.

after all, this has happened in a matter of days, not a month's long build-up that we knew about. >> well, there's a great deal of fear that the shias from iran or that iran itself will try to fill the vacuum. that is what is always the problem in the middle east when you leave vacuums. the other thing to remember, shep, is this is also about oil. iraq has large oil fields that will be very lucrative to -- to those different groups. and they will be fighting over those fields in short order because that will be what will fund this insurgency or fund the government. it's also another point that touched on that's very important is that maliki -- when the americans were pulling out and as they were leaving, remember it was the sunni awakening in anbar province that helped the surge troops that the u.s. sent in to iraq to stabilize things, that they were not taken care of by the maliki government after the u.s. left. and the u.s. military advisers kept telling maliki, the prime minister, who is shia as you

mentioned, to take care of these sunni leaders out in anbar so that they pay their -- pay their salaries, bring them in to the police force, pay them to be part of the military. he didn't do that because he didn't -- didn't send the money that they wanted and deserved. and now they are joining up with these al qaeda-linked fighters from isis. and they are part of this now rolling thunder run to baghdad, if you will. >> all right. i want to show some viewers what we're talking about with these oil fields because this is important. iraq has 1/5 of all of the oil reserves on the planet, as countries go. most of the oil fields are in the south of iraq. an area that you can see is basically untouched at this point. if they're going to protect anything, it's there. up by mosul which has already been taken, there are oil fields, as well. and those oil fields along with the $500 million or so dollars that they got from the bank who

n mosu-- from the bank in mosul could go a left wing way in helping fund long term. there's a plane that sends oil from iraq to turkey, up above syria. see the turkish border where they've been having all of these problems in recent days. they have political turmoil there. they've had all kinds of demonstrations in the streets. and that pipeline construction, jennifer, that's of great concern, as well. >> absolutely. and our colleague, greta van sustern told us we've to keep our eye on kirkuk because they're going to want to control the oil fields and that's of concern. this has the potential to destabilize numerous countries. this is not just an internal iraqi affair, shepard. >> no. and now that you have this problem in mosul, there's a lot of oil development. remember, iraq's oil production basically went off line during much of this war. so much of their money and resources have been spent on

trying to get it back together. they're only at about 1/3 of capacity right now. for the rest of the world, any time there's a big problem with oil, any time there's a big problem, the saudis can come in and fill that void. the saudis can add more oil to the market and sort of stabilize prices. iraq, though, is too big a producer for the saudis to come in and make up that difference. and that's why we see these extreme movement in the oil market, the world oil markets today, right? >> that's right. and it's significant that the state department is meeting with senior saudi officials as we speak because there is such concern about oil and oil prices. that is the backdrop of what is going on. the other thing that's interesting, shep, is that the only country other than the u.s. now to stand up and say that the world needs to do something about what's happening in iraq is france. nato has already come out and said that they will not get involved militarily. the british said they will not get involved militarily in iraq. the french, the reason you're hearing from the french, is

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we just had another new development. at the risk of making all this very complicated matter seem even more complicated, i have to tell you what happened. i want to take you to the map to do it.

we talked about mosul which was an important city that the forces overtook. we've talked about them headed toward baghdad. we've talked about how they got tikrit. we explained that they're close you to to but auto -- close to but not yet in kirkuk. there are the sunni, shia, and kurds. they have oil field s up there, as well. they've been shipping, trucking some oil into turkey with the idea to avoid the central government in baghdad so that baghdad doesn't get this money and the kurds can get it. they see themselves separately anyway. remember when the war began, we dropped troops into the north of iraq and they came down to help solidify the treasures and all of that? i think it was the fifth i.d. that came from texas. that was kurdistan where they're not part of this conflict, or that's how it had been. the kurds have since had this oil conflict. and what they've done, some of their oil has gone through turkey, ended up in a turkish base -- port, and ended up headed toward the american gulf

coast. then it turned around, and now the government in baghdad is going file with the united nations a complaint. so that sort of ratcheted up the trouble between the kurds in the north and the baghdad central government. here's what just happened. the kurdish forces that operate within the iraqi army, the pesh murga. they have taken over kirkuk. this happened in the last few minutes. we got a dispatch of the leader of the kurdish forces -- again, the kurds in the north of iraq -- that they've taken over kirkuk. the quote from the leader of that group is, kthe iraqi government forces led by nouri al maliki have abandoned their posts, and the kurds have taken over in kirkuk. you think this is&4qy moving fast? this is moving fast. and just in, wire copy and compter, vice president biden

tells nouri al maliki that he should be prepared to intensify security support from the white house. let me read this, brand new, this is what happened. vice president biden has just told iraq's vice president bide told iraq's nuri al maliki that the united states is now prepared to intensify and accelerate security, support, and cooperation with iraq. now, when we say with iraq, that does not mean the kurds in the north, it does not mean the sunni who are running the insurgency, it means the central government of nuri al maliki. the central government of nuri al maliki which is not supported by his troops. the troops are melting away in the face of all that's happened here. as the insurgents, the sunni insurgents come, they're melting away leaving their weapons, money being taken. now the united states is saying we have just told nuri al maliki in the last few moments, we're going to help you now. we're going to help you in specific ways. so from three days ago when

everything was seemed to be status quo, now lost are the cities of mosul and fallujah, now kirkuk is gone, the ancestral home of saddam hussein is gone and the united states is about to step in. try alka seltzer reliefchews. they work just as fast and are proven to taste better than tums smoothies assorted fruit. mmm. amazing. yeah, i get that a lot. alka seltzer heartburn reliefchews. enjoy the relief. a yummy reward is important so i give butch delicious

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cooperation with iraq under the strategic framework agreement, to confront the urgent and growing threat posed by this insurgency group. the vice president underscored it was critically important for all of iraq's communities to reach a lasting, political accommodation in the united order to defeat the enemy. that's not what's happening here. this is not a nationalistic thing for iraq. they're the sunni and shia fighting against each other. what's happening here? the united states is stepping in to fill a void, so that the iranians don't step in and fill that void. news flash, iranians are already stepping in. this is from the reporting of the "wall street journal." dateline, be route lebanon crossing this afternoon. iran deployed revolutionary guard forces to fight in iraq helping government troops there rest back control of most of the city of tick create from the militants. iranian security forces said. two battalion of forces, remember them, the kuds forces work oversee branches of iran's

revolutionary guard corp that has operated in iraq came to the aid of besieged shiite governmenter nuri al maliki. combined iraqi/iranian forces took control of 85% of titikrith is the birth place of saddam hussein. the qods force is working with the iraqi ground forces swri melted in the face of this insurgency and now the united states is sending in support and security help for the iraqis. iran is helping the iraqis and the united states is helping the iraqis. and it's all getting started.

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