left in iraq i'm joined now by political analyst joe maccarone. so we've had very specific goals in mind when we entered the country we wanted to depose of saddam hussein get him out of power and we wanted to find locate and take control of the weapons of mass destruction will saddam hussein is dead and we know now that there are no weapons of mass destruction so technically we have control of all of them is this a mission accomplished in this case. i mean mission accomplished was we have the missions i think to do this through the mission food but i think after this goes and six we have the shift of strength that you were the coalition election the republicans both lost the election you had gets going to go up you had big you had those this whole shift the sued but differently we never phoned. up of months ructions so the image of the invision the was not for food some ho but the most important thing. we have to look back i think the big picture of the invasion if you want to look back ten years or ten years now we see that iraq change washington

for more on the true legacy that the us left in iraq i was joined earlier by a political analyst joe maccarone we began by talking about the military goals the u.s. entered with which were ousting saddam hussein and seizing the weapons of mass destruction one of those goals was completed and the other one didn't exist so i asked him if this was mission accomplished here's his take. in mission accomplished was that we had different missions i think after two thousand and three the mission failed but i think after a dozen six we had to shift our strategy where the coalition election with the republican party lost the election you had gifts coming up you had baker you had those the whole shift the surge but definitely we never found any weapons of mass destruction so the initial goal of the of the of the invasion did not. was not fulfilled somehow but the most important thing is we have to look back i think the big picture of the invasion if you want to look back ten years ten years now we see that iraqi change washington as much as was to change iraq you see how much there's concern you c.e.c. t