do not lead a lobar be set as a precedent. -- do not elect a local bar be such as the president. -- low bar be set as a precedent. >> i lives near st. luke's hospital. i want to ask you to look closely at the justification for the size of st. luke's hospital. it does not make any sense. the 80 beds -- it is inappropriate. for years, cpmc has been deliberately undermining st. luke's hospital. they have been cutting services. the stories i have heard are horrible. they take patients with insurance and transfer them to other campuses. that is what happens. despite health care professionals and nurses doing whatever they can to ensure the best treatment for everyone. cpmc says that as residence, we can go across town to get all of our specialty care services on multiple buses. as someone who rides the bus 3 only, i know how long that can take. -- frequently, i know how long that can take. the -- as a community, we have tried to negotiate. we know what they are like. they play hardball. they are ideological and they are opposed to doing the things the community and the workers need. in order

months in the making now the coordinated attacks took place in several locations including kabul and lobar province and the paktia province and according to one of the captured militants the attacks were linked to the honey network from the afghan pakistan border reason tax or just deadly for the militants they also left eight casualties and security forces whose efforts were praised by president hamid karzai who also quickly called out nato for having a serious intelligence failure an effort to deflect blame and there is plenty to go around on sunday john mccain took the opportunity to blame the troop drawdown and president obama's withdrawal timeline for the uptake in violence. but every time the president announced another withdrawal his military commander said it increases the risk that's what. actually what you're seeing there is the years of mounting failures in afghanistan and i'm going to disagree with senator mccain because i think that the evidence is clear i think tired counterinsurgency experiment has completely backfired and the pentagon knows it and if you remember the time t

even if true tony's statement sets a very lobar and the gains are certainly still reversible. if our goal is, quote, a sovereign, stable, self-reliant country with representative government that could become a partner in the region and no safe haven for terrorists which is not there yet. we have a lot of work to do. on security iraq endures a high number of attacks. that is per month from politically motivated. unquestionably much lower than they were at the peak but still sufficient to keep sectarian tensions high which is what was said in a recent video. the economy is not really in good shape. high iraqi oil production helps the budget and moderates world prices which americans like but higher oil production does not make an economy. democracy in iraq does not yet include an independent judiciary protection of basic human rights, vigorous parliamentary oversight, local governments or fulfillment of many constitutionally mandated procedures. we are not there yet for sure. there are threats out there and we have to be clear about what they are. first is the threat of breakdow