out of the paul dickson would of those massive weekly stockings releasedate this afternoon
white house press secretary robert gibbs look to downplay the newsworthiness of the material
i don't think that
what is being reported hasn't in many ways to be in publicly discussed either by usual
by representatives of the u_s_ government for a for quite some time
would you buy that are not the reports are raising new questions about the war effort
so what does it mean for the administration's efforts afghanistan and pakistan
so matt let me start with you uh... went to the republicans
finally make a full circle and flip on afghanistan pretend they were never for the war in the
first draft
well um...
back in a sense is happen there was a huge schism i wrote about a politics daily a couple
weeks ago or and hold their join people like george will and tony blankley who would you
know the long been opposed to afghanistan
and looking back im realizing there's there's a real argument it could be the republicans
are being opportunistic and playing politics
but you could also argue the president of bomb has changed the war and this chile there
was a very small footprint the goal is to stop terrorism now we see nation building
and so maybe republicans are gonna jump off
you know for political purposes but maybe there's a substantive reason there till but
i think it is starting to happen
offset soc n_b_c_ having a sale out there
if forgot that i think it right in there
when president and we didn't do anything so marijuana's trying it's not as young as well
i gotta tell you that night and that should make sure that he double checks are where
those documents uh... what kinda read those documents cover
manufacturer to answer some of the more than anything else
for some of them to come more than one fact in fact on ninety percent of them do it
exactly what we found from those documents from two thousand four two two thousand nine
was that the bush administration allow the situation to continually degraded and the
cherry
and that that's what we're left with now
now uh... does that mean that though bomb is off the hook now this is his problem he's
got a deal with it
and so i think it'll be interesting to see uh... if the republicans did take that fact
of saying like somehow obama has created this mess when in fact the documents what they
really shows simply that this thing is that a mess for years and has been slowly deteriorating
and i think the only thing that it shows jake is that you know we have a a real problem
that's greater than afghanistan and so hot you know what the republicans there will probably
have some weird bizarre of political response to this that has
in a little to do with the actual situation on the ground on getting rid of that out ability
that government entities great as it once again tomorrow for
i think it's a very nice good
can't keep anything secret matt acknowledge problem when i'm all for transparency is also
a classic republican thing is that uh... you know you know i'm not sure of how happy i
thin transparency of the overnight but i think transparency is a deadline i sums the government
secrets of the
then it becomes a real problem
biomass one last question for both of you match for you
i mean when you look at these documents it looks like the bush administration students
war for seven or eight years the nearly try
uh... it take a break is that the day before you did not handle it right
well other than a lot of conservatism agree with you on that uh... outlook here's the
deal
i feel it is at last week with the shirley strawberry
it's up
unedited or excuse me selectively edited information uh... is to be distrusted so with another
like ninety thousand some document it's a lot of stuff out there but whoever leaked
this um... probably selectively with certain things we don't really know the full story
but
frankly it looks highly let's be honest pakistan out working with afghanistan does not look
like a good thing for us going forward
and finally sent but if the republicans but i want to get out of afghanistan
should you welcome that
because you want to get
afghanistan
uh... personally absolutely yes i would love of the republican side i think the encontro
madison and paying for
well i like to give the republicans more credit than to be led by an culture i mean i'm talking
about someone who's
the show some level of seriousness
uh... miracles are sort of uh... cartoon character but
and there would be nice if there was a greater pushed by the republican party
to get us out of afghanistan even if it was completely craven lead based on politics
i think if the end of the day i think that's going to be
culturally what does that mean our policy