the administration is trying to do is really twister iraq's arm prime minister or prime minister maliki's arm to get him to ask us to make it official to ask us to stay but you said just a second ago why do senior officials american officials like former secretary of gates why do they feel it's so important that we stay watching. tells me that they feel we're not ready to pull out entirely because iraq is not ready to defend itself. isn't part of the problem here though right is that we wanted to be face administration officials will look to iraq and they say look this is the shining beacon of a fledgling democracy that we've created but within this democracy of iraq there is a lot of domestic politics that's involved there are a lot of people that want us out and don't want us to stay and that's part of maliki's problem right now absolutely many iraq ease there everybody's glad saddam hussein is gone he was a bad actor everybody is glad but we created that insurgency paul bremer did when he fired the dishpan of the iraqi army in the iraqi national police and i was over there as an adviso

with them bob there are a lot of people that want out and don't want us to stay and that's part of maliki's problem right now absolutely many iraqis there everybody's saddam hussein is gone he was a bad actor everybody. but we created that insurgency paul bremer did when he fired the dishpan of the iraqi army in the iraqi national police and i was over there as an advisor to the minister of defense in two thousand and six and two thousand and seven and anybody that's that said back then certainly it's been a few years that iraq was able to defend itself you know i don't know what they were smoking because nothing could have been further from the truth that the situation in iraq was. a shambles and it may have improved i'm sure it's improved over time but you know this whole thing about we have a good advise and assist brigades over there we're not in combat although the one thousand soldiers that died last month who killed they die was a training accident when soldiers are in a combat environment and they die they die in combat are they going to receive a purple posthumous purple heart i'm

the plan was, the plan to wind down the iraq war was negotiated between joseph brennan and nuri al malikig the bush administration. this is the problem i have with separating policy. >> we give george bush some credit. >> no, but this is about being accurate. this plan was in place before barack obama was president. it was part of the military decision and this is why i said we cannot just include political without including the process. >> but i'm not going to let you sit here and diminish the president's contribution. >> i'm not trying to diminish it. i'm adding to the fact it needs to be fully correct. >> let the professionals, there is' no doubt the military but under the constitution the president is the commander in chief of the military. and so he has to make the ultimate decisions and so i, you know, will offer credit but what this is really all about is too many people sought to diminish barack obama's foreign policy credentials, sought to diminish whether he was committed to taking out osama bin laden, so what he basically did is he answered the question and the question has bee

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guest: the staff in those meetings with secretary panetta and prime minister maliki and prime ministerlabani said that the feeling was good. they understood the urgency about making a decision about whether to ask the u.s. to retain troops after the december target for withdrawing the remaining 46,000 u.s. servicemen and women who are in iraq. they do understand the urgency, but the question is whether they can reach a political agreement with interact -- within iraq to make that request. prime minister maliki especially is under pressure from his own shiite and the more hard-liners who are associated with that, to force the u.s. to go ahead and withdraw. and at the borders of iraq are very difficult currently for the iraqi security forces to guard on the run, not only on the ground, but definitely in the air. so there are still a lot of weaknesses that the iraqi security forces have that could benefit from some back up from the u.s.. and that is the push and pull going on within iraq right now. host: talk to us about the killing of president karzai's brother and the reaction by the de

part of the problem is that the iraqi prime minister nouri al-maliki still hasn't named a new defense minister and a new interior minister. if there were leadership at the top of those two important ministries, perhaps there would be clearer direction given to the iraqi security forces to go out and target these groups a little more. that said for the most part if you talk to military officials here, they say a lot of progress has been made, that whether you're in infantry soldier in the iraqi army or part of the special forces you are better trained today than you were even just a year ago. >> ifill: in these attacks who is being targeted? military, civilians? is it something that doesn't have anything to do in many ways with the war itself. >> you have two different types of attacks that have been going on. though there haven't been any this week, there have been attacks targeted at u.s. troops and u.s. installations most notably sources south along the iranian border. officials are concerned that they're getting the training and the weapons necessary. there was a pretty deadly set

guest: the staff in those meetings with secretary panetta and prime minister maliki and prime minister talabani said that the feeling was good. they understood the urgency about making a decision about whether to ask the u.s. to retain troops after the december target for withdrawing the remaining 46,000 u.s. servicemen and women who are in iraq. they do understand the urgency, but the question is whether they can reach a political agreement with interact -- within iraq to make that request. prime minister maliki especially is under pressure from his own shiite and the more hard-liners who are associated with that, to force the u.s. to go ahead and withdraw. and at the borders of iraq are very difficult currently for the iraqi security forces to guard on the run, not only on the ground, but definitely in the air. so there are still a lot of weaknesses that the iraqi security forces have that could benefit from some back up from the u.s.. and that is the push and pull going on within iraq right now. host: talk to us about the killing of president karzai's brother and the reaction by the

i was really struck by a cartoon this week that had the leaders of iraq and afghanistan, maliki and karzai, looking at our debt ceiling debate and saying, "do you think they'll ever be ready for democracy?" you know, the fact is that we've got people who have been elected, house members have been elected in gerrymandered, much more partisan districts. they're more worried about being challenged in a primary than running against the democrat. you've got both caucuses now much more ideological because the census the democrats were defeated in the last round. so, this whole thing fell apart. john boehner and barack obama probably could have come together on something. they could not lead their caucuses, and boehner is a different kind of speaker. he has not the ability or the desire to go out and say this is the deal, my way or the highway. you're not going to get on this, you're not going to get on that, you're not going to have a good office. the old enforcement mechanisms, as much as we dislike them and used to criticize them, they worked. leaders could demand followship. here, there's an

panetta also met with prime minister nouri al-maliki and president jalal talabani. they discussed keeping some u.s. troops in iraq after the withdrawal deadline in december. officials in pakistan today played down a u.s. decision to suspend $800 million in military aid. u.s. officials confirmed it on sunday. but, a pakistani spokesman insisted today that operations would continue without external support. tensions between the two nations have escalated since the u.s. raid that killed osama bin laden inside pakistan. reports in britain now say former prime minister gordon brown was one of the victims of phone hacking by a tabloid newspaper "news of the world". the rupert murdoch media conglomerate has closed the paper. and it delayed efforts today to take over another company, british sky broadcasting or, b- sky-b. we have a report from gary gibbon of "independent television news." >> reporter: gordon brown wooed the murdoch empire like the best of them. but they turned on him, backing david cameron in the last election. today, he turned on them. gordon brown believe

who's arriving with a high profile delegation to baghdad to meet with iraqi prime minister nor i al-maliki, a fellow shia muslim, they're trying to build relations, and listen to senators joe lieberman and lindsey graham, who just returned from afghanistan: >> the biggest nightmare for the ayatollahs in iran is to have a democrat -- democracy in iraq and afghanistan on their borders so yes, they're helping the taliban, they're trying to react to debate that shia are trying to bring down democracy, they're trying to undermine their efforts. they're responsible for material coming into both countries that are killing not only american soldiers but the rec -- iraqi and afghan people. >> they've got the blood of a lot of people on their hands, including the hundreds of americans who have been killed in iraq as a result of iranian training and equipping of extremist militias. >> reporter: but i just asked general david rodriquez, who is the number two in afghanistan under general petraeus, he's ending what has essentially been 40 months of combat, he's coming home in the next month, and i asked

>> you mean the maliki government? i don't believe -- i don't have any information to suggest that were true. we are waiting -- awaiting to see whether or not the iraqi government makes a request of us and that has not happened. we are obviously now in july. we are drawing down to zero. we are on schedule to draw down to zero by december 31 in keeping with our agreement with the iraqi government and we will continue doing that as planned. so there is a certain amount of -- not sensitivity, but only so much time here available for the iraqi government to make such a request. if they do, we'll consider it. otherwise, we are keeping on schedule. >> how much time -- >> i would refer you to the defense department, because that has to deal with the logistics of drawing down forces principally. but i know it's not an endless amount of time. >> could i clarify the debt ceiling achievement that the president would like. the estimate is that if the debt ceiling goes up 2.4, it would take everyone through the end of 2012. is that

we have found out this week that the leader of iraq, maliki, is giving in to the request of the leader of iran, go against his promise to us and to the people of camp ashraf, go against his promise to the people there that they will be safe and secure and now he's saying he'll disband the camp. it is time to put america's national security and national interests first and not some whim of some president because someone outside the u.s. asked him. we know the muslim brotherhood, despite what some say, has been supporting terrorism. the evidence was clear in the old foundation trial. we know that this administration has bent over backwards to appease such folks. and it's time for an amendment that makes very clear, which this one does, mr. president, it doesn't matter whether you're going to try to use our military to through they toe, our military through the u.n., our military head up for reconnaissance, rescue, it doesn't matter, you're not going to use the. for those who argue the war powers is constitutional or it's unconstitutional, i would humbly submit it does not matter. even th

northern alliance, we've perceived the arrogance, the condescension, not only from prime minister maliki in iraq but certainly from the leader in afghanistan, karzai, certainly from his brother, there's just too much arrogance there, all kinds of stories about corruption, whether or not you believe that it's clear that the taliban is being allowed to do things now in afghanistan that we were supposed to have eliminated by our coming in. it may well be as one afghan told me that once we begin, if we would to rearm the northern alliance, karzai might be a lot more cooperative than he has been. but nonetheless a year ago we were being told, your administration in washington, the obama administration is indirectly talking, negotiationing with the taliban to just let the united states out without any big incidence and then they can have whatever they take. and that's when they pointed out , you can't let this happen, you can't do this to your allies. well, we've already seen with israel, we voted with israel's enemies in may of last year, i believe it was, to demand that israel disclose all t