monday's fighting spread to the nearby city of falluja, where took vehicles. elsewhere, iraqi military hunting down al qaeda fighters in a bid to stem the violence. -- sunnisters protesters in the thousands denounce the government. theyhiite government, claim, imposes discriminatory policies against them. >> and norway and denmark, awaiting the removal of dangerous chemical weapons from syria. bad weather has hampered the operation, meaning a key deadline has been missed. ambitiousow to the timetable to rid syria of chemical weapons by next june. theircloser to achieving goal of removing chemical agents from syria. this norwegian frigate is one of those two transport syria's chemical arsenal to a specially equipped american vessel to be destroyed. but bad weather means the december 31 deadline for their removal will not be met. >> there is a delay, yes. of course there is a clear determination by all parties to achieve success and complete removal and disruption of the chemical weapons program. >> this operation was to be the first major milestone on the road

i was in the first battle for falluja in april, 2000 four. a lot of people remember the second battle when we actually took the city. in the first one, the marines went in for a few days and then pulled back to try to let the iraqis do their own thing. there about atten month before and it was really crucial that we made sure that everybody had conductivity and could talk to each other. sometimes, we would call each other electron warriors, kind of jokingly, because we would be talking on the radio or trying to connect a satellite, and i do remember when a succession of different medication systems broke and we had to find different ways to talk to the base about 50 miles away. we were trying to translate , how we woulding dial on the satellite phone and then get to talk to a different base so that our higher commanders could be able to talk to each other and know what was going on. so, between that and forcing cable undergrounds of the people could have electronics flowing instead of having -- and actually be able to communicate and with ima

after our guys were murdered in falluja and then the big attack, there was another ambush in baghdad. i said that's enough. we need armor. so i contacted a buddy of mine who is the largest armored vehicle collection in america. he's got a museum. i said i need armor, where do i go? i go to the british military surplus yard, and i say i'll take that one, that one, that would. they were 10 grand a piece. so they were not -- i could by 13 and we put air-conditioned in the top of them and ship them off to iraq and the guys used them. so that led to, okay, i knew how to build vehicles in my past life. our guys knew what we needed so we started building vehicles. we competed. we put our vehicle in the process and it was blown up and tested and they can still drive it away after it was blown up. the decision was after the tragedy, and, of course, all things blackwater were terrible thing and so we were not selected. it's a good lesson, a painful lesson in selling anything to the duties that they are really capable of making a truly merit-based decision. way too much politics involved and tha

i was in the first battle for falluja in april, 2000 four. a lot of people remember the second battle when we actually took the city. in the first one, the marines went in for a few days and then pulled back to try to let the iraqis do their own thing. we had just gotten there about a month before and it was really crucial that we made sure that everybody had conductivity and could talk to each other. sometimes, we would call each other electron warriors, kind of jokingly, because we would be talking on the radio or trying to connect a satellite, and i do remember when a succession of different medication systems broke and we had to find different ways to talk to the base about 50 miles away. we were trying to translate between one thing, how we would dial on the satellite phone and then get to talk to a different base so that our higher commanders could be able to talk to each other and know what was going on. so, between that and forcing cable undergrounds of the people could have electronics flowing instead of having -- and actually be abl

i was in the first battle for falluja in april, 2000 four. a lot of people remember the second battle when we actually took the city. in the first one, the marines went in for a few days and then pulled back to try to let the iraqis do their own thing. we had just gotten there about a month before and it was really crucial that we made sure that everybody had conductivity and could talk to each other. sometimes, we would call each other electron warriors, kind of jokingly, because we would be talking on the radio or trying to connect a satellite, and i do remember when a succession of different medication systems broke and we had to find different ways to talk to the base about 50 miles away. we were trying to translate between one thing, how we would dial on the satellite phone and then get to talk to a different base so that our higher commanders could be able to talk to each other and know what was going on. cable undergrounds of the people could have electronics flowing instead of having -- and actually be able to communicate via e-mail a

i served in too many hello, where babylon is in 2003 in falluja in 2004. afghanistan at 2007. >> host: do you think war with iran is inevitable? >> guest: i sure as hope not. let's put it that way. i think a ground war in iran, with american boots on the ground would be a horrible thing. people like to toss around the fact we have to stop them in some way from getting this nuclear capability. i don't think it's inevitable, but if you have to get it wrong, you had it with nuclear devices and set them back a decade or two or three. i think that's the way to do it. a massive aerial bombardment campaign. that is still a huge undertaking that cost billions and millions of dollars to do it. i don't especially after iraq and afghanistan. america knauss knows his limitations in that area and what we can do. we want to spend 12 years after we tear it down to build it up again so does it run by a crazy to radical leader that has happened in iraq and afghanistan. you've got a crazy guys running the government there. unfortunately what we've done to set that up has pl