and the odds of us leaving iraq, what do you think the odds are of leaving iraq? i think they're slim to none. until they're broke. unless we get somebody in office who changes the policy! [cheers and applause] you know sometimes little items stand out bigger than the trillion of dollars. it's hard to comprehend the trillions and the hundreds of billions. one thing that went on iraq i think you can remember and it makes them look silly. why are they doing this? and that is they decided after we conquered iraq. you know they had everything over there and we had to conquer them. but we conquered them and we started having the green zone but we build an embassy in the green zone. as big as the vatican. just recently in the d.o.d. budget they put authority authorization and funding for 17,000 people to be employed in the embassy in iraq. do you think they're planning on coming home. i would say the suggest be that if you're going to save that $1 billion, what we should do is save the billion, put habit to the deficit reduction and put it into some program here at home

the odds of us leaving iraq, what are the odds? i think slim to none until we are broke until we get somebody in office that would change the foreign-policy and bring our troops home. [applause] sometimes, little item stand up bigger than the trillions of dollars. it is hard to comprehend the trillions and the hundreds of billions. there is one thing that went on in iraq that i think you can remember. it makes them look silly. they decided after reconquered iraq and we had it all of that over there. we conquered them and we started having the green zone. we built an embassy in the green zone. the embassy is as big as the vatican. recently in the dod budget, they put funding for 17,000 people to be employed in the embassy in iraq. do you think they are planning on coming home? the suggestion would be is if you're going to save that $1 billion, we should save the billion dollars, but half of it into deficit reduction off and put it into some program at home where we can help people that have learned to be so dependent on the governme

us for a while. in iraq today, bomb blasts ripped through more than a dozen cities, leaving at least 60 dead. it is the country's worst day of violence in over a year. it comes as a rocky politicians are under pressure from washington -- it comes as iraqi politicians are under pressure from washington to decide whether american troops should stay. >> two bombs within minutes of each other -- first a roadside device in the city center, and then a car bomb when security forces arrived. there were at least five blasts in another province, at least 10 dead. in tikrit, they targeted a counter-terrorism unit. the prime minister went to school here. in baghdad, a blast was aimed at civilians shopping in the capital. >> what is the result? he is not a politician or an official. he is just a shop owner. >> this comes two weeks after politicians agreed to hold negotiations over whether a small number of u.s. troops might stay in to 2012. the deadline for their departure was meant to be the end of this year. officials from both countries are concerned about whether iraq's forces are strong enough to pro

touch with ak turner and they told me i had to go to iraq to stop custody prestigious to get custody of the body wants to give us new to some to leave very we went to recover the bodies. once they gave us notice of delivery we went to recover the bodies. which. we left at half past three in the morning. to go to the human rights office. we got to barbacoa at about nine am. there they gave us the medical examination papers for my brother alexander them with. their legs on the limb and for no barrel the other young man who died with him. at the medical examination office they gave us the death certificate and the woman who was the medical examiner there were cold war. so they'd give us the bodies with thought that if we did arrive in time look at have buried them in the same day as. if they'd injured him because what i got is that they hit him with one or two bullets. and on the death certificate it says death do you just several gunshots. a lot of the most saddest part of the story was when nobody arrow's mom asked me the meaning of death by acute hemorrhage of anemia. because she didn't understand them and. i thought the clearest th

touch with the actor and they told me i had to go to iraq to start custody prestigious to get custody of the body once they gave us new some to leave very we went to recover the bodies. once they gave us notice of delivery we went to recover the bodies. which. we left at half past three in the morning. to go to the human rights office. in. to. me it was we go to barbara koa at about nine am where. the. bear they gave us their medical examination papers for my brother alexander. belich sound in your mind and for no beryl the other young man who died with him. and the medical examination office they gave us the death certificate and the woman who was the medical examiner there were culture born. so they gave us the bodies we thought that if we should arrive in time we could have buried them in little town the same day. if they'd injured him because what i got is that they hit him with one or two bullets. and on the death certificate it says death do you just several gunshots. to get. out of the most saddest part of the story was when nobody arrow's mom asked me the meaning of death by acute emergent anemia which people kill because s

wars aren't over when the last soldier leaves the battlefield they were going to have similar problems in afghanistan and iraq given the chemicals that were used the unexploded munitions the land mines and so the the dippers pleated are iranian as well and i think vietnam is a good case for us there at a country that loves us which is really startling they're very frightened of china they want to increase trade with the united states they're an emerging economy travel and tourism is going to increase in that in that part of the world and with a little investment over a short period of time we can show the world that in fact you can go back in and clean up what was left as a legacy of the vietnam war so there are still hot spots in vietnam of the denying airport is a good example it was the busiest airport in the world during the vietnam war were troops were being brought in and where the chemical was brought in and the chemical dioxin was five times powerful than it should have been and many of our veterans were using the barrels that the chemical came in to cook food and they were rinsing them out and using them as washing masons many of them

leaving out the wars in iraq and afghanistan and our weapons procurement system is in grave trouble. the chinese don't need to grow to be a world power equal to us, if they conduct and deny access into the western pacific simply to be a competitor out there. which would have grave i implicatio implications. >> neil: are you going to run for president. >> i'm thinking about it, if you look at the path of the obama administration has taken, failed to produce economic recovery at home. dramatically weakened our national defenses, we need candidates on the republican side who understand the nexus between the economy and defense and are able to articulate it. >> neil: is rick per-- does rick perry? >> i don't know. we'll see his coming out speech in a couple of hours, the risk is we're not going to have a robust debate on national security. haven't had much debate in the past two and a half years, the people in 2012 are going to be asked to buy a pig in a polk if we don't have this out on the table. >> neil: we'll watch closer to the announcement. good 0 seeing you again. >> thank you. >> neil: the iowa straw poll, rick perry heads to south carolina

the jihad is from the always for us and the sharia is for you so they are they really want them to get back to leave because the prefer to of the status in libya than in iraq and they accept that they do what they want to do in libya. just one condition they want to of all do or on the beach or. turning to syria now with thousands of people have once again taken to the streets in protest against president bashar assad's regime the government has responded with force that is killing a number of demonstrators. has the latest now from the syrian capital the reason for the crackdown as the government says it's because there have been armed groups infiltrating syria from various other countries including places like iraq or saudi arabia and they say those armed groups are behind are behind those who are protesting against the change of the regime now we did speak to some people who would not talk to us on camera who did say that fortunately there is some grain of truth to that that the armed gangs which the government to stalking about have sort of developed this strategy of when they come behind the protesters who are protesting the current regime and they sta

intervention won't that leave a massive military power vacuum in the country or could the alliance be planning to stay just like it's doing in iraq and afghanistan let's not use the word airstrikes let's use the word bombardment of civilian infrastructure they've been barred it but bombing all the civilian checkpoints that are mostly are protected and manned by volunteers it's nato that's been doing all the fighting so when the media says the insurgents are moving in with the so-called rebels or revolutionaries whatever you want to call them that is not correct it's nato it's going all the hard work here and they will not come into tripoli the population here will postpone but they want this city to be on the brink of collapse because of the psychological war can you repeat the rest of that question well actually my my question now is you're saying that it's nato that is doing the bombing does that mean that the rebels themselves are directed by nato and that they really have to follow nato's hard line if you will if they do gain control i mean. they coordinate with nato nato is trying to deny this but there are nato its proxies on the ground this is a nato o

way start selling his oil to us and get a lot of money from i'll leave you know the reason but what he told the italian prime minister is that he was scared what he saw in iraq and you believe there was going to. do i do believe that he was there which i needed to look at all what it was going at the time but i think i think you're sort of missing the larger point i think a lot of republicans have learned a lesson they don't want to start waving banners and say mission accomplished because mission has not yet been accomplished what obama's done has been good and he's get getting rid of gadhafi but i think it's still premature to even say that because you don't know where gadhafi is i think that's been good i don't think i think that's in a way that's the easiest part is getting rid of the dictator the harder part is is having a stable good government take its place i think just look at. long we've been in iraq and afghanistan but that's the hard part says but so there are a lot of people an interesting glee there are a lot of obama supporters are turning around saying why will republicans give why don't republicans give credit where it's due i think republic

leaving airports. this stuff is just incredibly important for us to discuss i think it has been an incredible privilege and i think you would agree that we have the leadership here, the folks who iraq -- are at the tip of the spear giving us insights and answering questions. it has been a real privilege to stand with this group of here. i hope you would agree with me. on behalf of the airline pilots association, i would like to express my sincere thanks for your part in this panel today. i hope you enjoy the rest of the event, thank you. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] [no audio] >> in a few moments, today's headlines and your calls on "washington journal live on." at 10:00, the national business group on health will talk about a cert -- a survey on employer benefit costs. also a discussion have democrats may affect the next election and the gallup organization releases its annual look at public opinion of the u.s. education system at 3:00 p.m. easter and. in about 45 minutes, we will talk aut

us who you are. >> i was in cpa in 2003 and followed iraq ever since. i want to ask you, don't you see it in the u.s. national security interest to see all of the troops leave by the end of the year? i understand what secretary clinton had said in terms of we are leaving, but even to have troops training there afterwards, do not think it is sending a strong signal that we will leave if we do not get a training mission there as well? >> as the secretary said, we are leaving by the end of the year. a combat mission is over. the discussions are what kind of assistance can we provide it with regards to training and other assistance that is provided? we do this with other countries. and i think this would be what i would call a normal relationship with iraq. if we could establish that kind of approach for the future. >> that is why i want to be very clear that a combat mission is over. our troops are leaving, and they are in the process of literally packing up. that is what we agreed to. i agree we do that that is in america's interest to keep that commitment. but what leon is saying is also important. if a country comes to us with in what we would view as a nor

us to stay until 2024. sure, sure. what do you think the odds are of leaving iraq? i think they're slim to none. until we get someone in office who will change the foreign- policy and bring the troops home. [applause] sometimes little items stand up bigger than the trillions of dollars. it is hard to comprehend. there's one thing that went on in iraq that i think you can remember and it makes them look silly. why are they doing this? they decided after reconquered iraq, we had all of those people over there and we had to conquer them. we conquered them and we were at the green zone but we build an embassy in the green zone. this is the big -- this is as big as the vatican. they put authority, authorization, and funding for 17,000 people to be employed in the embassy in iraq and do you think they are planning on coming home? i would say this suggestion would be that if you will save that $1 billion, we should save it and put half into the deficit reduction and put it into some program here at home where we can help some people have learned unfortunately to be so dependent on the government just t

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us turn to the audience for a question on iraq. >> rand corp. i was at cpa in 2003. do you believe it is in the national security interest to have all of our troops leave the middle easty the end of the year? i understand what the secretary said in terms of we are leaving, but even to have troops there that are trading after words, don't you think it sends a strong signal that we are not interested in basis? >> as the secretary has said and the president has made clear, we are leaving by the end of the year. the combat mission is over. discussions now are what kind of assistance we can provide with regards to training, and other assistance. we do this with other countries. we have done it with countries in that region. this would be what i call a normal relationship with iraq. >> that is why wanted to be very clear. the combat mission is over. our troops are leaving. they are in the process of literally packing up. that is what we agreed to. i agree with you, that is very much in america's interest to keep that commitment. but what leon is seeing is also important. if a country comes to us within what we know -- we would view as a normal diplomatic relationship, and t