now anwar province, this has been going on, 17% of the vote.ere are many people here what are wondering there is such intensity of fighting, whether anwar province will be ready to vote. a lot of people here questioning it simply due to the level of violence. >> three lebanese soldiers have been killed. the explosion happened in a town right near the border with syr syria. the suicide-bomber drove a car completely loaded with explosives into an army checkpoint. the wounded were flown out by helicopters. >>> nine planes and eight ships are now searching the southern indian ocean where experts believe the malaysian 370 plane went down. they spotted objects but so far no debris from the plane has been found. >>> meanwhile many families members are clinging for hope as others remain angry as weeks pass by without any sign of their loved ones. many demanding answers from the government. >>> a hectic season is winding down for president obama's healthcare law. monday is the last day to enroll but the white house has extended deadline to mid-april for

when you look at it much of the anwar province has fallen to radical islamists. is the country of iraq better off today than it was before the invags invasion 11 years ago? >> it depends where you sit. there are a lot of iraqis who would say no. their lives are much worse today. many others are probably doing better today than they were under saddam hussein. the shiite arab population, which does constitute a plurality of the american public. when you look at iraq in terms of its stability, its security, let's look at the question a little differently, patrick. not so much was it better under saddam, but did we achieve what we set out to achieve, with the promises that the bush administration made about transforming iraq into a stable more democratic government. was everything that was supposedly accomplished during the troop surge of 2007 and 2008, did it set iraq on a fundamentally more secure footing? and while violence has come down from those terrible levels that existed some years ago patrick, when you look at what's happening in anbar province, with large