bush do in the past when he wrote a letter of apology to nuri al maliki after u.s. soldiers shot a copy of the koran during target practice in iraq however newt gingrich also forgotten all about that incident as he attacked president obama for this apology. as an obama surrendered twenty students and i think it deserves to be brought to the country's attention there was an incident where an amount of radical islam was the truth being burned to the core and was part of that that is now being blown into you just shouldn't go various fanatics are going to stand. president apologized for the birth of hamad karzai the president of afghanistan doesn't feel like apologizing then i think we should say goodbye and good luck we don't need to be here risking our lives and wasting our money on somebody. so what does this entire fair affair tell us other than how little we've learned after ten long years of war join me to discuss it is jack rice former cia officer and criminal defense attorney jack thanks so much for joining us tonight and before we get into the some of the comm

those are things which of course exist within our military and within al maliki's military. of course you have a series of milestones and yardsticks. >> you believe there should be a timetable in withdrawing the troops? >> well, there is no question but that the president and prime minister al maliki have to have a series of timetables, milestones that they speak about. >> you have to have that. so the last time you ran for president, mitt romney was in favor of a timetable for leaving iraq. mr. romney was also against a timetable for leaving iraq. >> i do not support and have never supported a timed withdrawal. so that's wrong. i have never, ever supported a specific timetable for exit from iraq. i said i would veto it. >> to be fair to mr. romney, the last time he ran for president, the most accurate way to describe his take on the iraq war was that he was totally for and also totally against a timetable for leaving iraq. mr. romney has also been totally for and totally against the whole idea of that war in first place. >> it was the right decision to go into iraq, i suppo

prime minister al maliki is consolidating his power as the expense of the other political blocs. violence is up significantly since the departure of u.s. troops. al qaeda in iraq and violent shia extremist groups are still very much active and threatening to iraq's stability. it is increasingly difficult to argue that iraq, to use the president a president's words is, quote, stable and self-reliant. one year into the arab spring the situation is fluid and in places very troubling. and libya to egypt, yemen bahrain, countries are undergoing monumental changes and the outcome is still far from clear. then there is syria, where the conflict appears to be entering a new phase, more than 6,000 lives have been lost, and there appears to be no end in sight. the bloodshed must be stopped, and we should rule out no option that could help save lives. we must consider among other actions providing opposition groups inside syria both political and military with better means to organize their activities to care for the wounds, to find safe havens, to communicate securely and defend themselves

he admitted that he was inspired by al maliki.bdul-mutallab is expected to certificate his sentence in colorado at the federal super max prison where other convicted terrorists are already behind bars. danielle nottingham, cbs news, the white house. >>> we'll take a quick break. up next, your weather forecast and in sports, duke gets a big scare on their home court. we'll show you how they pulled it out. home court. we'll show you how they pulled it out. feel the power my young friend. mmm! [ male announcer ] for excellent fruit and veggie nutrition... v8 v-fusion, also refreshing plus tea. could've had a v8. v8 v-fusion, also refreshing plus tea. sears big presidents day sale is on now. and we do mean big. with huge savings across the store. points, perks, and privileges. members get more. sears. i've been so looking forward to this. when my asthma symptoms returned, my doctor prescribed dulera to help prevent them. [ male announcer ] dulera is for patients 12 and older whose asthma is not well controlled on a long-term asthma co

our maliki -- al maliki is gone. does he get credit? how do republicans play this? it is a mixed bag. >> in afghanistan, one of the key underreported narrative's was that you had this young, inexperienced commander in chief come into office. he gave the pentagon 20,000 troops in 2009. a few months later, they rolled him and asked him for three times that amount. he did not see it coming. he was taken off guard. the pentagon waged a vicious media campaign to box him in a corner and force him to escalate. it is comparable to what happened to john f. kennedy with the bay of pigs. he had this idea that everyone knew was a horrible idea, but it had the momentum from the previous administration. i think the president -- i do not mean to sound condescending. i think he has learned from the experience with the pentagon. if you look at his decision once he started -- once he stopped listening to the pentagon, he has gotten out of iraq. the pentagon did not want to leave. in libya, a successful operation -- as these things go, successful but -- successful. he overruled secret

president obama issued an apology to iraqi prime minister nuri al maliki after a similar incident ino sound smart, tell your friends three people were killed in 2008 during protests following the shooting of the koran by united states soldier. the shooting occurred in iraq, it was in afghanistan where more than 1,000 people protested. among those killed, a nato officer who was struck by fire from an unknown gunman. >>> enough of the real news. let's huddle up around the water cooler. the big winner of the nice, as you know by now, sweeping five awards, winning best picture, "the artist," paying homage to silent era, silent black and white film, the first wordless picture to win top honor since 1929. that was the first year of the oscar ceremonies. the film also won for best actor, going to jean dujardin, best original score, best costume design and best director. last night best original screen play went to woody allen, he was not there. best original song for "the muppets" and best supporting actress, octavia spencer for "the help." best supporting actor christopher plummer for "beg

range and president bush, in a video teleconference that i witnessed apologized to prime minister al-malikio that and he told he got recognition from the president of the united states. and this is the difference and make sure we've got the facts straight. these were korans, passed back and forth, in jail and they've decoded them. and which is already punishableable by death and chopping your head off. they did not know that the koran inside, that the laborer found remnants of it and muslims that were outraged by this, started rioting and absolutely american soldiers targeted for this. i can imagine a scenario where the commander on the ground called to the white house and said, i know you're not going to want to do this, but we think it's the best thing to do, and unfortunately it's out of control over in afghanistan and at home. and eric, when charles says why not the commander or the secretary of defense offer the apology. why do you think? do you think that would have been enough? >> i think it would have been enough. i don't, first of all, in the wake of president obama's apology, whic

he has denied the allegations and accuses the shiite prime nouri al-maliki of a smear campaign for powerb. >>> the underwear bomber got life without parole today. farouk abdulmutallab had pleaded guilty to all charges on the second day of his trial last fall. the attempt to detonate explosives on hi body misfired on christmas day of 2009. this is an facebook simulation of what would have happened -- f.b.i. simulation of what would have happened if he had been successful >>> price of gasoline went up a penny. national average is $3.52 a gallon. while those prices are going up, one plan to bring more oil to the u.s. continues to be a political hot potato. we have the latest on the keystone xl project. >> reporter: house democrats are trying to delay or kill the keystone pipeline with series of poison pill amendments and the republicans are trying to make sure the issue gets to president obama's desk. >> we are here today because it's time to decide. president obama and his administration have made a decision not to decide. >> with rising gasoline prices, along with jobs, campaign issues. t

bush, apologized for nuri al maliki in 2008 for, guess what, a u.s.dier mishandling the koran, using it for target practice. he also apologized in 2004. >> i told him i was sorry for the humiliation suffered by the iraqi prisoners and the humiliation suffered by their families. >> that was just part of mr. bush's mea culpa to the king of jordan for that infamous abu ghraib incident involving the humiliating treatment of iraqi prisoners. and then there was president bill clinton in uganda in 1998. >> european-americans received the fruits of the slave trade, and we were wrong on that as well. >> now, there was some argument about whether it was an outright for slavery, but it sure sounded like one. let's go back even a bit further to a 1991 letter written and signed by president bush 41, apologizing to japanese-americans uprooted and mistreated during world war ii. and by the way, that letter was accompanied by $20,000 reparation checks to 82 japanese-americans and their heirs totalling $1.6 billion. ronald reagan, president bush 41's predecessor, was

because if they did, the rulers who came as a result of that invasion, al-maliki, is not any less democratic. he prevented the family of saddam hussein to visit -- [inaudible] >> thank you. um, the role of aziz is very, very important. he actually was up with of the people who really -- one of the people who really believed in the ideology of the baath. he was a true baathist from the beginning. he knew how to survive, and he kept his distance, yet saddam knew he can rely on him 120% and on his loyalty. and there was no doubt about this at any point, that he was very, very supportive of saddam and the regime. he's very active in all the revolutionary council meetings, he writes on behalf of the regime, he, you know, he lobbied on behalf of the regime. so his role is very, very important. yet like all others, not many could stand up to saddam. i mean, even when he knew that saddam is saying or making the wrong decision, he might say it once, and you hear it in the audiotapes, but if saddam rebeet peats it and say -- repeats it and says just figure it out, there is no upside, let's get on with

prime minister maliki appears to be consolidating his power at the expense of the other political blocs. violence is up significantly since the departure of u.s. troops. al qaeda in iraq and by extremis -- and extremist shia groups are still very much active trade is increasingly difficult to argue that iraq, to use the president's words," is stable and self-reliant." one year since the arab spring, the situation remains fluid in many cases. from tunisia and libya to egypt and bahrain, countries are undergoing a monumental changes and the outcome of those changes are still far from clear. and then there is syria, where the conflict appears to be entering a new phase. more than 6000 lives have been lost and there appears to be no end in sight. the budget must be stopped. we should rule out know of -- the bloodshed must be stopped. we should rule out no option that could save lives and consider actions of inviting opposition groups in syria, both political and military, with better means to organize their activities and care for the wounded, to find a safe havens to communicate securely to defend themselves and fight back against assad's forces. the time h