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this president's performance means we may well lose both wars. >> joining me now is john soltz, chairmans country so well. he's an iraq war veteran who has served as a major in the army and returned last night from his final deployment to iraq. john, congratulations. and thank you for your service to the country. what are your thoughts when you see president obama announcing it is now going to be over in iraq for military involvement? what goes through your mind? >> well, i think the first thing for everybody is it's humbling. just flying back here, coming back to the states. 8 1/2 years. people were like, where are you going? i'm like, i don't know where i'm going. it's all i've known, you know, since i was 25 years old. i've been to iraq twice. everything i've done in advocacy of vote vets has been about the iraq war. so it's humbling that you make it through and you're okay. you're not missing a limb. i mean, there's so many soldiers and marines, specifically, who served in iraq or afghanistan that have been injured or wounded. for the first part it's humbling that it's finally over.
this president's performance means we may well lose both wars. >> joining me now is john soltz, chairmans country so well. he's an iraq war veteran who has served as a major in the army and returned last night from his final deployment to iraq. john, congratulations. and thank you for your service to the country. what are your thoughts when you see president obama announcing it is now going to be over in iraq for military involvement? what goes through your mind? >> well, i think...
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victory tour by speaking at fort bragg today and telling the troops welcome home or just because john soltz who just returned from iraq will ask him what kind of a country he thinks we've left behind are not all that morphine and i could have a dose of happy hour but first take a look at the mainstream media has decided to miss. all right so as i just mentioned time magazine which nobody really reads in a war except for when they come out with this one issue finally said who their person of the year winner is and i was a little less vague that one time when they just named you but was still a gigantic group of people fighting for different causes around the world they all got lumped together. time magazine has just announced its annual pick for person of the year someone who for better or worse has done the most to impact our lives over the past year and this year's winner is. the protester as they've done a handful of times before editors chose to honor a group of people over an individual protests have really been the story of two thousand and eleven and they're going to be the story of t
victory tour by speaking at fort bragg today and telling the troops welcome home or just because john soltz who just returned from iraq will ask him what kind of a country he thinks we've left behind are not all that morphine and i could have a dose of happy hour but first take a look at the mainstream media has decided to miss. all right so as i just mentioned time magazine which nobody really reads in a war except for when they come out with this one issue finally said who their person of the...
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. >> joining me now is iraq war veteran john soltz, votesvet.org, and karen finney, former dnc communications director. thank you for joining me tonight. john, i want you to respond to senator mccain's point, quoting general cain. we won the war and now we risk losing the peace. >> that's offensive. i mean, general keen, the architect of the surge. the surge was a huge failure. probably the greatest failure of the entire war. two of the biggest reasons we have less violence in iraq. we still have a sustainable amount of violence. when i was waiting for my helicopter in baghdad, they blew up a truck bomb and killed 20 soldiers. we had a political adwroement in the sunni awakening. the second reason we had better security was in 2008, a battle not fought by american troops. it was iraqi against al sadr, a radical shia. he came into the iraqi government and basically is maliki's partner, the prime minister of iraq. so, when john mccain and general keen talk about this type of rhetoric, i would just ask them, why was i just in iraq? what did we fight for? what did all these americans die for? why
. >> joining me now is iraq war veteran john soltz, votesvet.org, and karen finney, former dnc communications director. thank you for joining me tonight. john, i want you to respond to senator mccain's point, quoting general cain. we won the war and now we risk losing the peace. >> that's offensive. i mean, general keen, the architect of the surge. the surge was a huge failure. probably the greatest failure of the entire war. two of the biggest reasons we have less violence in iraq....
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. >> john soltz, you're going to continue work with votevets.org. we're going to talk to you in the coming days of what the veterans face coming home. congratulations for what you did for the country. you're an american andgo, anoth reminder, democratic leader nancy pelosi will be our exclusive guest thursday night here on "the ed show." that's it for "the ed show." i'm ed schultz. melissa harris perry is filling in for rachel tonight. rachel, good to have you with us. thanks, ed. appreciate it. >>> thanks for you at staying with us the next hour. rachel has the night off. imagine if you will a candidate for the president of the united states. with a personal and professional resume that looks something like this. was born in an american city but spent most of his formative years grows up overseas. was raised in a nontraditional family without his biological father. became a success in politics later in life mostly on the strength of his speeches, his reputation as a great orator, is often viewed somewhat derisively as a brainy professortorial type.
. >> john soltz, you're going to continue work with votevets.org. we're going to talk to you in the coming days of what the veterans face coming home. congratulations for what you did for the country. you're an american andgo, anoth reminder, democratic leader nancy pelosi will be our exclusive guest thursday night here on "the ed show." that's it for "the ed show." i'm ed schultz. melissa harris perry is filling in for rachel tonight. rachel, good to have you with us....
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. >> we start today with two iraq war veterans, john soltz who only recently returned from another tourn iraq to chair his position at votevets.org. matt ho, a former marine corps captain and state department official who serves as a senior fellow at the center for international policy. i have learned much from both of these men, and they have a perspective that those of us who have not been to these wars simply could never have. john, first off, welcome home. obviously everybody must be delight that had you're here safe and sound. >> i'm glad to be here with you, dylan. time to fire it up like the old days. >> all right. if you want to do it, then let's do it. what do we -- you're the person in this conversation most recently in the country we're discussing. what is the canary in the coal mine for people like myself and every other american as we try to gauge whether america's security in that region is increasing or decreasing as we view the news coming out of iraq over the next year? >> well, i think the first thing is it's -- it's very humbling for the people who fought in this war
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and the troops that are coming home right now so here to discuss this with me is jon soltz co-founder of the org john thanks so much for being here and welcome back i know that you just got back a couple of days ago and so when you left you know the other people that you were there with that you served with what's the feeling like is it kind of do you just want to get out over the burma's people call it or what is it i think you watch the speech today and you could see how happy. that a lot of guys there from the second airborne division second brigade was in iraq this year they were the last guys out protecting everybody else's as we redeployed i think everyone's tired so from the military standpoint everyone's excited that there was no extension i think for the guys left over which is the mission i was working on planning for the sale of into the iraqis i was an advisor you know it was eerie i was my base i was waiting for my helicopter leave and there's a huge explosion and you're just like oh well you know they've blown up a bus minibus right inside the gate of the military base and killed about
and the troops that are coming home right now so here to discuss this with me is jon soltz co-founder of the org john thanks so much for being here and welcome back i know that you just got back a couple of days ago and so when you left you know the other people that you were there with that you served with what's the feeling like is it kind of do you just want to get out over the burma's people call it or what is it i think you watch the speech today and you could see how happy. that a lot of...