Baghdad, Iraq - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Baghdad, Iraq Index / Locations Transcripts Jay Carney ...and the decision was to motorcade into Baghdad , which was also scary because that wa... Neil Eggleston ...the same ISIS are also racing towards Baghdad . So they basically were dying to hav... ...trucks. They were all rocketing towards Baghdad , and we spent all that money trying t... Mona Hanna-Attisha ...and our plan was to go back home. And Baghdad was home. My brother, who is just ... ...just a year older than me, was born in Baghdad . That's where all our family was. I... ...two Iraqis in the 1930s that went from Baghdad to Spain to fight in the Spanish Civi... Jim Steinberg ...and the folks in the embassy in Baghdad . I made trips to Baghdad. That wa... ...the embassy in Baghdad. I made trips to Baghdad . That was very consequential, tryin... Hadi Pir ...of mine and me from a general from Baghdad , but unfortunately, at the same tim... William Taylor ...And from 2004 to 2005, he served in Baghdad as the first director of the Iraq... ...Afghanistan before that, and then after Baghdad I spent a year in Jerusalem. So I ha... Ryan Crocker ...What did you find as you arrived in Baghdad ? Well, there again, prior experienc... ...Then, how about the meetings in Baghdad , in July 2008? Did you see a simila... ...mean I would not have to do it out in Baghdad . They didn't succeed. The Iraqis di... ...did not have good connectivity back to Baghdad ; they had limited authorities, give... ...that go in Washington and pick it up in Baghdad . It was the right thing to do, bu... ...to retire—well, about the time I got to Baghdad , this was going to be my last time ou... ...which I did. Believe me, two years in Baghdad in those times was—that would be abou... ...what that transition looked like from Baghdad , looking back toward Washington. ... ...process. Certainly I didn't see it from Baghdad . I'm sure some folks came out, but ... ...process, and your visibility on it from Baghdad . Right. January 2009, Ray and I ge... ...it was, like, three in the morning in Baghdad before he could get around to it. W... ...to get fired. They'd already sent me to Baghdad , so there wasn't going to be much els... ...possible, as Dave and Ray and I did in Baghdad , we saw him together, so he wouldn'... Show more... Brett McGurk ...Christopher Hill, and James Jeffrey in Baghdad . During the Bush administration, fro... ...administration. I remember being out in Baghdad shortly after Mosul fell and being o... ...of American special forces to come into Baghdad ; because we were concerned about eve... ...were concerned about even the capital, Baghdad , falling, for a while. And I was ou... ...to come out and to basically fan out in Baghdad and assess what's really going on—kin... ...of days, and ISIS being on the gates of Baghdad . Not just on the gates of Baghdad, bu... ...of Baghdad. Not just on the gates of Baghdad , but also massacring hundreds o... ...the fact that they were invading Baghdad —and for a while there in Baghdad, i... ...Baghdad—and for a while there in Baghdad , in that June period, the rumors—an... ...you're in the fog of it—the rumors that Baghdad was about to fall were very real. ... ...are a hundred gun trucks entering Baghdad as we speak. Are you going to d... ...from Reuters or something saying “ Baghdad is about to fall.” All these sleepe... ...cells were about to be enabled, and Baghdad was going to collapse just like Mosul... Show more... Colin Kahl ...had been pummeled by Shia militia in Baghdad and elsewhere and were increasingl... ...on the population, especially in Baghdad —but most especially because Sunn... ...15, 2011. And sitting on the tarmac at Baghdad International Airport—I had flown ove... Stephen Kroft ...they were sending troops to fortify Baghdad because they were afraid that Baghda... ...Baghdad because they were afraid that Baghdad might fall. That problem was solved b... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Democrats Democrats go to the Criminal Justice Criminal Justice go to the Healthcare Healthcare go to the Elections and Campaigns Elections and Campaigns go to the Asia Rebalance Asia Rebalance