writer and the microphone over to michael corbin. >> thank you. it is an honor for me to talk about something extremely important to the state department. its designer for me to be here with my partner in abreu closely with in the last year and met in baghdad in may of 2009 when we were in the early stages of talking about some of the tremendous developments that we are working on everyday as we deal with iraq. i am also very honored that there is a large emphasis on iraq. this subject deserves a lot of attention. i am gratified all of you are here today. i am here to give you some of the color and flavor of something the state department is highly focused on. that is the transition from a military, security-dominated relationship we have had with iraq to a traditional bilateral relationship based on many other areas besides security, but which security will be a major part. a month after taking office, president obama outlines policy objectives for iraq at camp lejeune. he said the u.s. will pursue a new strategy to end if iraq war to a transitio

colin powell and michael corbin. deputy consistent secretary of state. al queda and iraq. they're assessment is it's not any long another strategic threat to the iraq government. they feel confident that the eye rack government will be able to handle, with its own forces the challenges from remaining in insurgent groups. that's the, u.s.g analysis. we can all maybe not totally agree with that but that seems to be the operation of the assumption right now. >> okay. pat? okay. please identify yourself. okay? >> hi. i'm dan and patrick talked about red lines and whether or not the united states had them in place. wanted to see if the other two panelists agreed we have failed establish red lines and that's true, what can we do short of the threat of actual force and you both enunciated why you think the uninhibited consequential forces leads down the road with everyone knowing how that government feels how can we reintroduce stopping the iranians from crossing. >> well, in my talk i did mention presenting iran with an usualty ma ultimatum. where by we've tried through these re

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panelists think you'd -- include michael corbin. this is 1.5 hours. >> it is an honor for me to be here to talk about something that is extremely important to the state department. it is an honor to be here with my partner who i have worked very closely with over the past year and met in baghdad in may of 2009. we were in the early stages of talking about some of the tremendous development said we are working on every day as we deal with iraq. i am very honored get there is a large attended on iraq. this is a subject that deserves a lot of attention. i am gratified that you are here today. what i would like to do is give you some of the color and flavor as something that the state department is highly focused on. that is a transition from a military security dominated relationship that we've had with iraq to a traditional bilateral relationship based on many other areas besides security but which security will be a major part . month after taking office, president obama outlined our policy objectives for iraq. he said the night stat