joining us from seattle, we have retired army general list barry mccaffrey. thank you for being here, general. >> good to be with you, alex. >> we'll get to how damaging this is to the u.s. military strategy and what you make of all the allegations. >> well, of course, it is important to remind our viewers that these allegations are relating to iraqi police and iraqi army and militia. so there's a giant civil war raging in iraq. we tried to tap down, ultimately successfully during the civil war, thousands were murdered and maltreated. these are tactical reports at the bottom of the chain of command observing this civil war. it is complete nonsense. we actually stop the fighting eventually or tap it down. you know, there was just no way to control this. this is sectarian violence at its worst. >> general, there are those who say the fact that the u.s. military had orders to ignore anything they would see along this front, in other words, not to get involved in issues between iraqi insurgents and iraqi police as you essentially point out there, anything about t

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