John Burns: “He did not want more U.S. troops. He did not want more U.S. troops in the heart of Baghdad. That's what he's going to…”

The American commanders here warned early on that putting 30,000 more troops into this fight was bound to mean that there would be more casualties.

I think to be fair to the Maliki government, if you look at the history of Iraq, it would be very unrealistic for them not to have that plan B.

We are implementing a strategy to embolden a government that is actually part of the problem... We are being played like a pawn.

He is utterly resistant to any idea there could be any separation of those two entities, he is Libya.