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. >>> we want to return to retired army general and military analyst barry mccaffrey. general, how surprised are you that the officers could be killed in a heavily secured building and the attackers escape? >> lester, this is shocking. we may be seeing a watershed event after a decade and hundreds of billions of dollars and 16,000 u.s. casualties. we see how shallow the impact we have on this primitive society is. yeah, we'll take it in context. these are thousands of demonstrators in a country of 30 million people, but this is really outrageous. we have had dozens of u.s. and nato forces killed by afghan uniformed people. and karzai is clearly not standing for and leading on this effort. >> but the cornerstone of the u.s. strategy, you know, is this partnership with the afghan government, the training of afghan troops and working alongside them. is all of that now potentially in jeopardy? >> i have been skeptical about this from the start. once we get u.s. combat forces out of afghanistan, it was going to be 2014. secretary panetta said it's 2013. we need to re-evalua

of information comes in florida kong got a hold of a power point presentation from one general barry mccaffrey who was an n.b.c. analyst and he was one of the worst offenders in this two thousand and nine year times piece and going greenwald wrote about it today detailing how mccaffrey presented a seminar to roughly twenty n.b.c. executives and producers on january twelfth where he spoke about the creep towards war with iran making it sound like it was only ninety days away he war that will most likely be iran will be the aggressor in the situation and not the u.s. and he said that iran will not under any circumstances be deterred from going nuclear so here you have somebody who obviously has certain financial interests greeting n.b.c. executives so they can figure out how to cover the iran situation and you wonder why the coverage coming from a muslim v.c. and i've received kids with such fear marjorie and ignore is that i reports ignores warnings from the administration people like the secretary of defense and director of national intelligence who say there is no proof that iran has decided

retired general barry mccaffrey. we probably murdered dozens of them. both the armed forces and the cia. tens of thousands of americans being held in supermaximum security prisons where they are deprived of content and psychologically destroyed. undocumented workers vanish from their families for weeks or months. militant police units breakdown the doors of 47 americans a year and hauled away in the dead of night as if they were enemy combatants. habeas corpus no longer exists. philip green in that article i quoted before, a people that accepts as the normal course of the events the bombing of civilian leaders will torture, kidnapping pleaded indefinite detention, assassination, covert wars abroad has lost touch with the moral basis of civil society. the u.s. military which soaks up 50% of the discretionary budget is apparently unable to win two wars in two small countries. in fact it has not had a serious victory since world war ii after which it decided to stick to dictators and minor nations. u.s. intelligence report released in 2008, global trends 2

so this is from general barry mccaffrey. general jack sheehan, and then another person who is the head, the commander of public works while i was there. here they say, this is on 356. after is rise to power guantanamo strategic and relevance as universally a knowledgeable. guantanamo, really close, low military purpose of ford says g. jeter advantage of those u.s. marine corps general jack sheehan. your not going to attack cuba. guantanamo is once important as a political icon. of the judges a naval facility, they're people who disagree. today, jeff it to doug jesse johnson, nothing to the navy. fontana disappeared every ship would fail. the navy would say $60 million per year. feel like they're taking one for the team. there is stalker using it. a lot of evidence. but a very straightforward man. as a fourth tragedy of what happened. this great secret place anymore. >> but it is not a ship repair. it's a port of call. >> not really. it wasn't until 1994 during the second of the mining operations when the move across florida.