ryan crocker, former ambassador to iraq and pakistan, discusses recent sanctions against iran

host: ryan crocker, any response? guest: just to clarify on the front end of that, the bush -pschool here at texas is named after george h. w. bush, the 41st president, and his library is here. -pthee43rd president is establishing his library up in dallas. two separate presidents, two different schools, two different libraries. host: ivan, good morning. caller: george "papa" bush started this madness by invading and bombing the middle east and by staging our american troops in saudi arabia which is mecca. that is where we went wrong.+ ronald reagan created saddam hussein and gave him tens of billions of dollars in military aid. papa bush staated to take him out. that is what started allocated and the jihaddist movement. that is what got us where we are. the fact you can casually sit there and defend your ridiculous behavior, we have strengthened iran and have lmost destroyed america in the process with these ridiculous illegal foreign wars that are against what this country was founded on. we have no business interfer

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we will say goodbye to you and thank ambassador ryan crocker for joining us this morning. he is that of the business school at texas a&m and thank you for being here. guest: it was a pleasure. host: that will do it for this morning's program. back tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. eastern. have a good day. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> president obama visits mississippi, alabama, and florida today and he will be met by local state officials. he will have a ferry ride where oil has come ashore. he will speak att4:40 eastern and we will have coverage. oil company ceo's will be on capitol hill tomorrow. we will have live coverage as they answer questions from the house energy and commerce oversight subcommittee at 9:30 a.m. eastern on cspan 3. tomorrow night, president obama will address the nation from the oval office. he will talk about steps the government is taking to deal with the gulf oil spill after his trip toothe region. we will have live coverage of that 8:00 p.m. speech and of our website and

negroponte served as ambassaaor to mexico, the philippines, and later on we will be joined by ryan crocker. as you look to iraq and afghanistan, what are your thoughts? guest: as far as iraq, better. i was there from 2004 to 2005. certainly, better than 2006, when there was rampant sectarian violence. the fact you have had one prime minister in power for four years, that they are taking over security. when i arrived in june 2004, they had a grand total of one battalion in their army. now they have close to 500,000 troops to help maintain security. as we are withdrawing, we aren't leaving them in pretty good shape. -- we are leaving them in pretty good shape. it was an interesting post. it was one of the most gratifying things. we were able to carry up the first successful elections in the iraq after the overthrow of saddam hussein. i think we were surprised by the peaceful outcome of those elections. host: mike, on the democratic line. caller: i was watching this is really -- isreali flotilla att ack. it is clear what was happening. every middle eastern islamic country is up in arms. they

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during more than 19 months in iraq, i worked very closely with ambassador ryan crocker and members of the u.s. embassy, the united nations' special representative, and representative of the indices with which we partner, and we worked closely together with our iraqi partners. i look forward to working just as closely with ambassador karl eikenberry, the nato senior representative, the special representative of the u.n. secretary general, the same position he held in baghdad, the e.u. special representative, and most importantly, president karzai and members of the afghan government. indeed, i have talked in recent days with all of these members of the team, including president karzai, as well as with ambassador richard holbrooke, the special representative for afghanistan and pakistan. we are firmly united in seeking to forge unity of effort. as i noted in my testimony before this committee two weeks ago, i was part of a process that formulated the president's strategy for afghanistan and i support and agreed with his new policies. during its development, i offered my fourth ride mili

during more than 19 months in iraq, i worked very closely with ambassador ryan crocker and members of the u.s. embassy, the united nations' special representative, and representative of the indices with which we partner, and we worked closely together with our iraqi partners. i look forward to working just as closely with ambassador karl eikenbery, the nato senior representative, the special representative of the u.n. secretary general, the same position he held in baghdad, the e.u. special representative, and most importantly, president karzai and members of the afghan government. indeed, i have talked in recent days with all of these members of the team, including president karzai, as well as with ambassador richard holbrooke, the special representative for afghanistan and pakistan. we are firmly united in seeking to forge unity of effort. as i noted in my testimony before this committee two weeks ago, i was part of a process that formulated the president's strategy for afghanistan and i support and agreed with his new policies. during its development, i offered my fourth ride milit

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