The War in Iraq: Desperate Measures. Retired General Barry McCaffrey Discusses the Current Situatio

NBC ID: ARYJHY2I3Y | Production Unit: Today Show | Media Type: Aired Show | Media ID: NY-WTDY-20060917-0001 | Air Date(s): 09/17/2006 | Event Date(s): 09/17/2006

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Event Date(s): 09/17/2006 | Event Location(s): Washington, DC;Iraq; | Description: In two-way interview with Campbell Brown from Washington, DC, retired General Barry McCaffrey, an adjunct professor of international affairs at West Point and also an NBC News military analyst, says he thinks the present violence in Iraq is as bad as he's ever seen. "It's moving toward the edge," he says. "Clearly, you know, you got several wars going on inside the city at the same time. Criminal violence, foreign fighters, those are probably manageable, and then the exploding amount of sectarian warfare, a lot of it directed by militias or police against the Sunni population. So it's really a very tricky situation." Commenting on the proposed security ring to be erected around Baghdad, McCaffrey says the tactical commander in Iraq, Lieutenant General Pete Chiarelli, is a very clever experienced officer. "The challenge is, population control in a city, you know, essentially the size of New York is tough, if you don't have national ID cards. So it's not clear to me that this will be earth-shaking in its impact. It will provide some additional protection to the Sunnis. It'll probably minimize the elaborate car bombs that are coming in from the outside." Campbell Brown notes that General Chiarelli has confirmed that U.S. forces are going to move from the Anbar Province to Baghdad for the purposes of this operation and that Anbar Province is really the incubator of the insurgency, home to places like Fallujah and Ramadi that are still extremely dangerous. She asks: "Are we essentially giving up the Anbar Province in an effort to try to save Baghdad?" McCaffrey responds: "Well, I think he is trying to amass his forces correctly. It is believed that Baghdad is the central battlefront along with Basra, Kirkuk, Mosul. We've still got 20,000 fortunately very brave Marines and soldiers out in Anbar Province, but it's now a holding area. I think to some extent Ramadi, Hith, Haditha, these towns along the river out toward the Syrian border are out of control, but you got to win in Baghdad, the seat of the government. Twenty percent of the population, huge levels of violence. That's the key, but it won't be done with the Stryker Brigade and U.S. combat troops. This has got to be Iraqi soldiers and Iraqi police." McCaffrey notes:"From the start, this has been under-resourced, but right now as we talk about this situation, we've got 14 Army and Marine brigades in combat. The other two-thirds, to include the National Guard, are not ready to fight. They're under-resourced, their equipment is inadequate for the task, the National Guard there in the United States probably got around 30 percent of its total equipment. So there won't be a surge of combat forces into Iraq." 08:09:43 (EJ = 00:24) EXT DAY IRAQ Brief cuts: Iraqi policeman and two other men standing outside building near debris WS: Low angle shot of vehicle debris and fireman wth building in background Brief cuts: side view of debris from car resting against shop, men survey debris from destroyed vehicle in road, ws as smoke rises behind buildings in background WS: Zoom out from twisted debris on balcony to people on the sidewalk below WS: Angled view of people standing behind raised security gate near the building shown in previous shot WS: Man sifts through vehicle debris and puts some of it in bag Brief cut: men sort through vehicle debris 08:10:20 (00:03) GFX: Still photo inset of Lt. General Peter Chiarelli 08:10:29 (00:16) GFX: Zoom in on Google Earth satellite photo of Baghdad 08:12:35 (EJ = 00:19) EXT DAY IRAQ FILE FOOTAGE Brief cuts: high back shot of U.S. soldiers crossing over knocked down wall, soldier walks backwards as he provides protection for journalists and other soldiers WS: View from building doorway of two U.S. soldiers crossing street towards U.S. tank WS: View up road of parked armored vehicle as ball of fire and smoke is seen from explosion WS: Side view: three U.S. soldiers fire weapons from atop Humvee (machine gunner), hood of Humvee and the ground WS: Point of view shot of tracer from projectile fired at building in distance. Zoom in on cloud of smoke rising from explosion

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