forced to flee from syria to lebanon many refugee mothers risked childbirth in terrible conditions delivery is very difficult here in lebanon it's costly i can't go back to syria now because of the war but one lebanese woman is committed to helping them. become friends with every woman i turn around she is important to me . there are a few g.'s midwife at this time and al jazeera world. your child is their arms the whole raman in doha these are all top stories the french president tomorrow michael says that. the u.s.

has marginalized itself in the israeli palestinian conflict he is holding talks about mood of us a day after the u.n. rebuked washington over making jerusalem as the capital of israel the palestinian president in turn said that the u.s. is no longer a credible mediator in the peace process. i also said there be no two state solution between israel and palestine without an agreement between both sides sharply. i told president abbas that i did not approve of the decision taken by the us president with regards to jerusalem and i researched my support to launch a new policy to have a sustainable policy which is vital relations between israel and palestine it can only exist through a policy that we can help to support on this point i wish to be very clear there is no eternity of the two state solution and no two state solution without an agreement between the two parties on jerusalem. has more powers for the palestinian

leader mahmoud abbas greeted the french president a man michael very warmly when he arrived at the least a palace and that is perhaps no surprise france was one of the countries that supported that u.n. vote on jerusalem at the general assembly on thursday and emanuel my call is always been very clear about france's position he has condemned donald trump's announcement that the u.s. will recognize that jerusalem is the capital of israel manal my call says that france's position has always been the saying that it really supports a two state solution and that it wants the status of jerusalem to be negotiated by israelis and palestinians within the framework of any future talks now as for mahmoud abbas he thanked him at all michael for his support there is no doubt that he is looking to go on as much help as possible in this situation and he is looking to france he is looking to the european union especially. the palestinians saying pleading that the united states can no longer be considered an honest broker

protests against israel and the u.s. recognition of jerusalem as its capital have been taking place in malaysia thousands gathered at the putrajaya mosque in the country's administrative capital prime minister najib resign amongst those attending. in catalonia regional elections separate is parties of one a majority dealing a blow to spanish prime minister mariano rajoy but it wasn't a resoundingly dream as a pro unity party emerged as the single largest group south sudan's government in opposition forces have signed a cease fire deal allowing humanitarian access to civilians caught in the fighting that the deal agreed after talks in ethiopia's capital addis ababa is the latest attempt to end the four year long conflict to historical phaedrus have been successfully de mined in the syrian city of raka just in time for christmas but no traditional services will be held this year rocker had been isolated main stronghold in syria since twenty fourteen and booby traps were planted all over the

city the group was pushed out in october but years of fighting has left most of the city including its churches in ruins. cuba's president will stay in power until april two months longer than expected raul castro was due to step down in february after elections for a view national assembly but that votes been pushed back by two months because of the deconstruction or destruction partly caused by hurricane in september in a speech on thursday castro again denied accusations that cuba is behind so-called health attacks against u.s. diplomats working in havana a grass you are now. in two thousand and seventeen we have been witnesses to a serious and irrational deterioration of relations between the united states and cuba our country is absolutely not responsible for this setback i say again categorically that cuba did not and does not have any responsibility whatsoever with the incidents they have alleged to have affected the health of diplomats

accredited persons or other foreign visitors proves president had republican shinseki has survived an impeachment vote in congress they are corruption allegations the question ski is accused of receiving illegal payments on the brazilian construction giant bird of rushed those are the headlines are back with more news in thirty minutes to stay with us here on al-jazeera.

september eleventh. in the ruins of new york america votes to defeat terrorism but this promise is quickly betrayed. george bush changes enemies asama bin laden is replaced by saddam hussein. see it as this sudden turn to love is the result of an extraordinary deception with devastating consequences for the world. everything begins less than six hours after the attack at the pentagon which was also strong secretary of defense donald rumsfeld scans the rubble and he issues his instructions stephen campbell and one of his advisors takes notes rumsfeld's

intentions are unequivocal. the evening of that tragedy president bush addresses america and the world. today our fellow citizens our way of life are very freedom came under attack. we will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them. we will make no distinction this essential detail was inspired by a key figure in the pentagon richard powell. on the afternoon of nine eleven places a call to the president's speech writer. i was on the telephone with david frum and i said to david. on the afternoon of nine eleven whatever else the president says he should say that we will hold. responsible the states

that support terrorists safeguarding it is a strategic break from the more modest policies of bush's pre-disaster us. i believe it represented a recognition that we would never succeed against the terrorists if we went after them one at a time and as long as governments were facilitating the organization training equipping financing of terrorist organizations we were never going to get it under control. and ambitious program for all out war a goal in line with neoconservative policy and thinking an approach supported by richard powell. dick cheney donald rumsfeld congolese or rice paul wolfowitz douglas feith these are the advisors who have bush's ear. joe wilson

a career diplomat witnessed their rise. they came into office with the republican party in particular with the staffing done by the vice president and his office and the secretary of defense in his office. referred to his neo conservatives they have ties to the world of oil to the defense industry they are strong proponents of american global domination. saddam hussein softened by years of sanctions is in. on the evening of nine eleven the president saying well maybe you know we will be going after iraq now and somebody said well. that would be a guess since international law. the president responded i don't care it was going to kick a few days after the world trade center. and the pentagon were attacked the president was at camp david with his senior officials and mr wolfowitz was telling

the president. the rock and saddam hussein is the real problem. new goals were defined change the regime in baghdad and subjugate iraq a simpler objective than that of destroying the elusive terrorist. nine hundred. eleven aging saddam hussein meet at the ministry of defense the pentagon. they all began asking questions about how long can we continue this policy aimed at keeping saddam under control and the conclusion they came to was not much longer the day after the meeting at the pentagon president bush addresses congress. it is

a historic moment the nation is united bush names the culprits osama bin laden al qaida the taliban regime in afghanistan our enemies are radical network of terrorists and every government that supports them. no mention about iraq but he warns our war on terror. begins with al-qaeda. but it does not in their. tony blair the british prime minister and guest of honor applause it's symbolic of the unwavering alliance between washington and london. the taliban are quickly driven out of kabul and al qaeda is dispersed. some of bin laden disappears.

in washington bush abuse eager to move on to another war i stand by those words afghanistan is still just a beginning if anybody harbors terrorists or terrorist if they find a terrorist or terrorist if they have terrorist or terrorist i mean i can't make it any more clearly to other nations around the world if they develop weapons of mass destruction that will be used to terrorize nations they will be held accountable. after this speech secretary of defense rumsfeld meets with general tommy franks at central command in tampa florida. franks controls a massive area from africa to asia and leads the war in afghanistan but rumsfeld has something else in mind iraq. he orders general franks to prepare a plan of attack.

since his invasion of kuwait in the gulf war in one nine hundred ninety one large parts of iraq had been under an international no fly zone. despite iraq's defeat and the terrible sanctions that would decimating his people saddam remained in power. in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight he drove on to u.n. inspectors sent to disarm him saddam was a dangerous man. dangerous first to his own citizens and dangerous to the rest of the world. joe wilson knows iraq well in one thousand nine hundred ninety one in baghdad he was the last american diplomat to meet with saddam hussein saddam was hemmed in he was not a threat he had been turned from a major regional power into a third rate dictator. just over one hundred days after the attacks of nine eleven still fighting in afghanistan america looks for another war richard powell

publishes what is essentially a declaration of war. the same day franks visits bush at his ranch in texas in front of journalists the two men speak of the successes against the taliban in afghanistan where taliban got the country secure the country stable we will destroy the al qaeda terrorist network inside afghanistan it will take as long as it takes thank you all. but in private bush confirms to franks the order to attack iraq. this change in priority worries the general who on february nineteenth two thousand and two confides in bob graham florida senator and chairman of the senate intelligence committee. after a briefing which was quite upbeat with the progress that was being made of the

general asked me to meet privately in his office and the first thing he said was we're no longer fighting a war in afghanistan i was stunned by that and i asked him what the mean and he said that some of the important personnel such is special operations units were being moved from afghanistan to get ready for a war in iraq. bush's decision is fraught with consequences the fight against terrorism is put on the back burner in favor of a conventional war in the middle east not the most predictable region in the world . in early two thousand and two the military machine is set in motion all the trimmings is to convince the public of the need to go to war with a country that seems far removed from the tragedy that struck america.

under base of each former army colonel and professor of military history. having made that decision to go toward the political necessity was to sell the war to the american people that they had prepared a significant profit and operation to sell the war at a time when the press was very receptive to whatever the administration might be saying in its efforts to defend the united states against yet another attack that and weapons of mass destruction seemed to people on the inside to offer the best mechanism to complete this selling job. w m d s weapons of mass destruction chemical biological nuclear for months this deadly arsenal will be at the heart of the iraqi deception the stakes are high in a power struggle between the proponents of war and those who oppose it i was

listening to briefings detailed top secret briefings from the cia the defense intelligence agency and other intelligence organizations and they all believed. believed very strongly that saddam had multiple programs to develop weapons of mass destruction in reality there is no consensus on the existence of w m d's for years american intelligence has been monitoring iraq and has found nothing we spend billions literally billions of dollars a year with what we call national technical means which everyone knows are satellites and then not only take images but they have all kinds of other sensor data on that thing ok and guess what. not one w m d shite was found in iraq since one thousand nine hundred ninety one the specialists

of elec training espionage the n.s.a. the national security agency cannot find anything. william binney former technical director of the n.s.a. was among those scrutinizing iraq there was no information collected by n.s.a. that that indicated that he continued his weapons of mass destruction program or even that he had weapons of mass destruction. this was no surprise saddam hussein's arsenal had been destroyed after the gulf war and. before nine eleven american senior officials had publicly stated otherwise is not about any significant capability would respect the weapons or abstraction is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors were. we are able to arm bomb him not one not. one saddam

hussein's fate is decided the official tone changes and washington portrays him as an immediate threat. this is a regime that has something to hide from the civilized world. states like these and their terrorist allies constitute an axis of evil and. no terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people in the stability of the world than the regime of saddam hussein in iraq simply stated. there is no doubt that saddam hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. the existence of w m d's will have to be proven to help them the bush administration turns to i'm a child. in one thousand nine hundred ninety two together with other opponents of saddam hussein in exile he formed the i n c the iraqi national congress.

all of them had a common interest in being ex exiles in that they wanted to take over the government and understood that the way they were going to do that was by following a us army which was dispensing with the current government and with saddam hussein. overlooked by bill clinton allied himself with the president's political opponents the i.o.c. . managed to develop a clear and significant strategic relations with people in among the neocons and the republican party at large and it with some democrats also to get support for america to do something about saddam. in january two thousand and one approach unity presented itself for the iraqi exiles so when president bush

came to power. all those people who were advocating supporting us came to power with him. after nine eleven the collusion between the iraqi exiles and the bush administration becomes cooperation. that american administration. so that specifically asked us to see if we can introduce them to people. oh can provide information on the value of these. china be complies enthusiastically he introduces the americans to iraqi defectors endless sources of revelations about saddam hussein's deadly arsenal. the people in child his group wanted to get rid of saddam that so they were looking and searching in trying to come up with things that would help justify to us what our people wanted to hear that is we wanted to hear something would be weapons of mass destruction so we could justify it's going to work with them. a shrewd politician and strategist

chalo be also introduces his defectors to the press and through their provocative headlines the journalists lend credibility to all the allegations against baghdad opinion in washington is divided and it was clear from the very beginning that major institutions in the united states such as the cia and a large part of the state department what opposed. to this they had no confidence in us they kept that criticizing us they kept calling us exaggerated liars despite everything the pentagon refuses to question the revelations made by the exiles the idea that chalo be had information that he knew to be false and he presented it knowing it to be false is has never been established in any of the inquiries and there been many official inquiries into the activities of the intelligence

activities before the war. but the skeptics must be countered and to give credence to the iraqi exiles the hawks at the pentagon create a power on those services the office of special plans and initiative by paul wolfowitz and douglas feith. the office of special plans this was quite a lot of us once tri-city they were set up as an alternative cia. the cia gather this information from a multitude of sources in general its analysts check them before submitting their conclusions to the politicians but the office of special plans short circuits this process a first in the history of american intelligence in the end bush cheney and rumsfeld obtain the answers they need. george tenet director of the cia grudgingly supports the information before congress. i had one of those

hearings the director of the cia george tenet brought with him three white folders where materials about the some five hundred fifty sites in iraq where allegedly there were no weapons of mass destruction i asked tenet where did we get all this information and the answer is we got it for. the exiles who did we the united states of america have on the ground to see if in fact what was said in these exile provided information packets was accurate and the answer was zero. the exiles and the pentagon collaborate and transforming mere allegations into official policy. the collective effort by all those groups involved became

a fabrication that became the policy of the united states and it was used to justify a war. further information was provided by friendly nations. in rome a dossier from the italian military secret service sees me arrives at the american embassy. it eludes to a secret sale of uranium to iraq by may share. the german secret service offers its support as well. it's provides the americans with revelations made by an iraqi defector code name curveball he claims baghdad is making biological weapons in its mobile aboard its roots. or ship date as. the war to liberate iraq went for bush a crucial barrier remains to be overcome before he can go to war congress the american president must ask congress for the green light before launching the

country into a war. in august and september the drumbeats of war in iraq started get louder and louder and there were some indications that the president would soon be calling on congress for an authorization of war against iraq. a mere formality as bush holds the majority but bob graham will try to stall. this race too. and one of the questions was we'd like to review the national intelligence estimate on possible war with iraq and the answer was there isn't a national intelligence estimate. what graham is asking for is a top secret document an estimate of what every intelligence agency knows about a particular threat. to be told that here we are about to go to war and

no national intelligence estimate has been done was astounding and we ask that it be done what happened was they kept their heads way down you know they didn't want to do an estimate on weapons of mass destruction in iraq because the honest honest answer was there any. good in london live comes to the aid of his friend bush's and publishes a dossier on the iraqi weapons. the intelligence picture they want to keep they can be deployed within forty five minutes and iraq is seeking uranium from africa to develop an atomic bomb but in congress graham is not convinced he presses on he wants proof the agency particularly the cia the central intelligence agency was very reluctant and said we don't have time to do this i said we don't have time to

know everything we need to know before we commit u.s. troops to combat tenet goes back to the white house and he says. it looks like the jig is up i will go have to do it estimate and the white house says ok mr tenet two things number one you have to do it in one and a half weeks usually an estimate takes three to four months and number two it's got to come out exactly as vice president dick cheney said it was. tenet will once again view to the president's orders. bob kerrey is a u.s. senator and former navy seal. well i think it's a fair accusation to say that both president bush and vice president cheney put pressure on the intelligence community to reach a conclusion that they had already reached vice president cheney at one time went down and sat in cia did sat down at a in a chair next to the analysts looking at the data saying what do you have on weapons of mass destruction will it kind of puts the pressure on the intelligence agencies

to come up with something. in two thousand and one vs spreads around the lone. arab australians accused of being enemies with them. and attacking the way of life who are treated like we would all suspects we would all be under suspicion struggling to adapt to their new found home. al-jazeera expose the history of the lebanese community in australia. once upon a time in punchbowl at this time on al-jazeera. via friends being a journalist the crime practicing journalism. mahmoud hussein detained for three hundred sixty five days without charge. journalism is not a crime mahmoud for sane is not a criminal. free mahmoud hussein.

forced to flee from syria to lebanon many refugee mothers risked childbirth in terrible conditions delivery is very difficult here in lebanon and it's costly i can't go back to syria now because of the war but one lebanese woman is committed to helping them. become friends with every woman i attend she is important to me. there are a few g.'s midwife at this time on al-jazeera world. i'm still robin you're watching al-jazeera these are our news headlines french president obama cross says the u.s.

has marginalized itself in the israeli palestinian conflict he's holding talks with mahmoud abbas the day after the u.n. rebuked washington over making jerusalem as the capital of israel and the palestinian president in turn said the u.s. is no longer a credible mediator in the peace process. also said that there would be no two state solution between israel and palestine without an agreement between the two sides. sharply a pretty diverse crew i told president abbas that i did not approve of the decision taken by the us president with regards to jerusalem and i reserve my support to launch a new policy to have a sustainable policy which is vital relations between israel and palestine it can only exist through a policy that we can help to support on this point i wish to be very clear there is no alternative to the two state solution and no two state solution without an agreement between the two parties on jerusalem will face protests against israel and the u.s. recognition of jerusalem as its capital have been taking place in malaysia

thousands gathered at the putrajaya mosque in the country's administrative capital prime minister najib resigned of course once those attending. in catalonia as regional elections separatist parties of one of the jollity or dealing blow to the spanish prime minister mariano rajoy but it wasn't a resoundingly victory and say pro unity party emerged as the single largest group . south sudan's government in opposition forces have signed a ceasefire dealing deal allowing humanitarian access to civilians caught in the fighting now the deal agreed to after talks in ethiopia's capital addis ababa is the latest attempt to end the four year long conflict and it aims to revive a twenty fifteen peace deal that collapsed last year after heavy fighting broke out in south sudan's capital juba. cuba's president will stay in power until april two months longer than expected raul castro was due to step down in february after elections for a new national assembly but the votes been pushed back by two months because of the

destruction caused by hurricane in september peru's president had republicans an impeachment vote in congress over corruption allegations accused of receiving illegal payments from the brazilian construction giant bit abrupt he denies any wrongdoing those were the headlines are back with the al-jazeera news out in thirty minutes to stay with us here on our air. in early october two thousand and two in the u.s. congress a resolution authorizing the war is put to the vote the cia finally presents its estimate on iraq classified as top secret it is not until twenty fifteen that the estimate is made available to the public it is in a state or text ninety five pages long the dissect saddam hussein's weapons of mass destruction program most notably however the estimate is exceedingly cautious

citing doubts and conflicting opinions coming from the core of the intelligence community. to keep these drugs from being taken into account the white house symbol taney asli publishes a shortened version of the estimate on iraq twenty five pages embellished with color photographs and maps. they had a very clever sanitized version of the estimate which. if a sentence said we think it possible that saddam hussein had this then the take out the possible this version makes official the allegations that have been circulating for months baghdad has chemical and biological weapons as well as missiles saddam could get his hands on a nuclear weapon within a year the sales campaign that took place i would characterize as aggressive deception there's no question that the headlines leave a different impression of what's in the document itself the october two thousand

and two and i e is not conclusive. it is the headlines that will sway congress bob graham knows this he votes against the resolution to go to war. by taking that action according to our own intelligence reports i will tell you friends and i would encourage you to. read the classified intelligence reports which are much sharper than what is available in the classified form we are going to be increased the threat level against the people of the united states i found the document to be a very unpersuasive and it was a significant part of my ultimate decision to vote against the war in iraq. october tenth two thousand and two that. congress approves the war right roll touring the course of history four out of jackson. the deception is successful.

american officials bear the responsibility of having allowed questionable evidence to dictate their decision and this for political ends this vote was going to be taken in october of two thousand and two just a month before the november election so there were a lot of people who felt that from a political standpoint. they didn't really want to know too much because they wanted to be able to tell their constituents this is what the president said was the right thing i accepted his judgment the vote by congress is a resulting victory for the bush administration jollibee and the iraqi exiles and it leaves the antiwar proponents with a bitter taste of defeat and i'm willing to go with a vote of congress security it is no time to rally public support to do so they have a dossier on hand. remember that dossier from rove the one that conveniently

emerged from the archives from the italian military secret service sees me. and so bianco former minister of the interior has closely followed the extraordinary story of this dossier chat on document the wall up at the u.s.c. it called going to let me introduce the college women in it let raise enough at that it. but they will tease out. that food soldier is rocco martino a long time sees me agent informer to french british and american secret services he is the one who circulated this seemingly explosive dossier among his so-called clients. this is it it contains official looking documents that allude to a sale by nice to iraq of concentrated you renia or yellowcake. the yellowcake dosey he finally lands on the desk of vice president cheney in february two thousand and two. when dick cheney saw this report from the defense intelligence

agency about yellowcake iraqis seeking yellowcake in darkest africa and asia where. he asked the cia briefer or you think about this this year briefer said well i'll check it out and to verify it the cia summons joe wilson on february the nineteenth two thousand and two wilson is familiar with the fourth largest uranium producer in the world he was posted there earlier in his career when i got there the first person i went to see was a u.s. ambassador. and she said to me we have already looked at this. and we have determined that there is nothing there will soon returns to the united states and gives his report to the cia the amount of uranium that was being talked about represented about a twenty five percent increase in annual protection levels and any such increase

would have had been approved through the consortium that ran the mine you could not hide that. wilson's conclusions are related to cheney who ignores the vice president is sticking to his dossier from italy. and yet the italians gave the americans fair. warning the documents in the sherry and yellow cake are false. enzo bianco has been demanding a commission of inquiry for years. if i took it she's still in opposed to the eighty foot up but then into the if she said v.t. cases come then then talent scandal. it cost him votes should it not at all not cause had he put say negative at. the event that you get the one the. family the anything in it will david's out that the costs read it they'll be better at them in

the phallus save for the maturity to not respond on a late that is the last. of the interface ducts suspicions that the program or camp will ignore for them the yellowcake dossier is a godsend it fuels a fundamental fear that of a nuclear apocalypse the only weapon of mass destruction that truly. is a weapon of mass destruction is a nuclear with chemical weapons and biological weapons are battlefield weapons but a nuclear weapon is a society altering weapon. fear of the iraqi people reaches its pinnacle in september two thousand and two the new york times publishes a headline about the threat from baghdad it eludes to aluminum tube was seized by the americans that were to be used in the production of centrifuges to enrich uranium from africa and finally to make an atomic bomb it all adds up.

at the end of two thousand and two the media campaign in the united states works like a charm according to the polls almost eighty percent of americans believe saddam has an atomic bomb or is close to having them in the end the yellowcake dossier will have a remarkable fate president bush himself will get behind it the british government has learned the saddam hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from africa pronounced by the most powerful man in the world this little sentence is an unequivocal condemnation and yet bush had been warned when the president when the state of the union address was being fair the cia told the white house you cannot use this. laim that saddam attempted to purchase uranium from. there. to proceed to despite of the cia's reluctance the white house attributes

these revelations to the british who spoke of yellowcake in their september report . with respect to iraq's attempts to acquire nuclear material in the air the. the british intelligence official the head of british intelligence at the time to this day insists that that information was correct and no one can say with certainty that it isn't it isn't true in fact the british white paper was simply circular reporting it was our story that ended up in a british document it was the same story. the french government which essentially controls the exploitation of the eurabia mines looked into the yellowcake affair and concluded it was fraudulent. dilla sub was the diplomatic advisor to french president jacques chirac at the time said i felt a little kid you wanted

a cool extra morning he's expected to see you. that you feel much oily you know that. i don't fully understand us you want after us you each to preach under to some of the recommender extra. when early two thousand and three the american government decides to present its case to world leaders. colin powell who stands before the u.n. to deliver a scathing indictment of saddam hussein he repeats the accusations already presented during debates before congress he stresses the existence of mobile laboratories for producing biological weapons these are the revelations made by curveball the iraqi defector who spoke to german intelligence. finally he accuses saddam of wanting to get his hands on an atomic bomb and he speaks of the are you

many i'm tubes that for months have been presented as a refutable proof. we watched colin powell and we said whoa this is really theatrical well done and we gave him an a for presentation and a c. minus for content. of the legal. issue would you give me your. request or more policeman the vile that. general powell put in nations with the head of the cia behind him was acquired from a man which they named curveball. curveball whose real name was rough feed comment was a knobby would later admit that he made it all up so he could stay in germany. richard powell who had superficially defended the idea of going to war has no

problem admitting that many of powers allegations were unfounded the mobile laboratories that were described in that intelligence report that turned out to be completely false there were no mobile laboratories the aluminum tubes which could have been part of centrifuges. turned out to be aluminum tubes for launching small small rockets colin powell now is lying yeah he did. why he do it because the president told them as though it taking their case to the un the american seek to justify their actions in front of the international community weapons inspectors return to iraq but have yet to find w m d's but washington applies an indisputable logic. hussein indicates that he has weapons of mass destruction that he is violating united nations resolutions then we will know that saddam hussein again to see of the world if he says he doesn't have any and i

think that we will find out whether or not saddam hussein is saying some of the we believe will be verifiably false. fronts wages one last diplomatic battle. on february the fourteenth at the u.n. domenic to fill pan states the french position these are still a fox news. you know you don't it's even a game and on march seventh director general of the international atomic energy agency mohamed el baradei denounces bush's claims about the yellowcake from africa bailed on for analysis by you has concluded. with the concurrence of outside experts that means documents which form the basis for the reports of anything unique the iranian transactions between iraq and these areas are in fact not authentic we have therefore conclude that the specific allegations are unfounded. well we know it's a forgery now and we know that our country suffered the indignity of the.

director saying before the u.n. security council it took us a day and a half our experts but we looked and internet and really looked elsewhere we hired experts and we found out that z's documents were not authentic. in paris. announces that he will veto any resolution in favor of war. like that i did it was all appeal to sort of. the americans will ignore the advice of some like the conclusions of bottle guy and the opinion of the un. the night of march nineteenth the war begins three weeks later columns of american tanks roll into baghdad saddam hussein flees.

from the outset of the operation in iraq american soldiers search for saddam hussein's awesome they find nothing the politicians blame it on the intelligence community you know intelligence agencies frequently make mistakes intelligence organizations by their very nature are working with imperfect information and with conflicting accounts with things that it's impossible to to interpret with a high degree of certainty the cia which had been so suspicious of the collaboration between the exiles and the pentagon will be forced to take the blame notably for the most blatant lies that little sentence sixteen words in all spoken by bush about the african yellowcake and the documents that inspired it no one knew at the time in articles maybe someone knew down in the bow for the agency but no one in our circles knew. that there were doubts and suspicions that this might be

a forgery this insistence on defending the official lie finally gets the better of joe wilson's discretion. it was at that time that i fully understood that the government was not going to do it their it that it lied to the american people and therefore i had to write the story myself. in the new york times he publishes the truth about his mission tunisia and the fact of the white house was well aware of his conclusions. given the structure of the consortium that operated the mine it would be exceedingly difficult for niger to transfer uranium to iraq. the cia must once again sold a responsibility and george tenet releases a statement. the sixteen words should have never been included in the text written for the president this was a mistake a small price to pay for a very lethal lie at the white house the issue becomes

a subject of humor official inquiries will denounce the incompetence of the intelligence community for the erroneous information about saddam hussein's weapons of mass destruction this was fraud and i can't say that often enough no mistake fraud. the man who was complicit in this deception refuses to be held soley responsible. have to believe that an exile organization with limited means can fool a major superpower the only superpower in the world of a time. with with bill tens of billions of dollars on sophisticated intelligence gathering into war against saddam. is fiction. it will be three years before bush admits that saddam did not have w m d's. the mayor. reason we went into iraq at the time was we thought he had weapons

of mass destruction turns out he didn't but he had the capacity to make weapons of mass but also talked about the human suffering or at. bush brushes aside the stated reason for a war that has destroyed an entire country. in iraq the invasion turns into a bloody occupation. the downward spiral. started with the occupation the coalition specially the americans lost the moral high ground and they became the jailers of that if people the bedlam the chaos the violence in iraq now it's a natural consequence of what bush and cheney did in invading iraq. iraq is quickly torn to shreds ripped apart by religious and ethnic violence.

i think the most convincing argument was that in order to enhance israel's position in the middle east and its security the nation surrounding it that formed an anti israeli bloc had to be broken up into smaller confessional e homo genius nation states so in the case of iraq a kurdistan a shia sanin a sunni stan. this objective was openly declared as early as nine hundred ninety six in this document. signed by richard perle and douglas feith a text that accuses iraq of posing a threat to israel. today the chaos in iraq has spread into syria entire provinces are beyond the control of

baghdad and damascus. and the west has a new enemy the islamic state of iraq and the levant isis also known as dice the united states bears considerable responsibility for the fact that the islamic state exists. but not because the united states intended to create the islamic state rather that the islamic state came into existence as an unintended consequence of this immensely foolish war the americans and the british had they not occupy the country have had they cut of corruption when it started we would not have that the violence has claimed hundreds of thousands of victims day to many and it's up rooted million innocent iraqis in the seventy's you have hundreds of thousands of refugees leaving the area and nobody asks nobody asked

what caused this what caused this terrible human catastrophe it was an earthquake and was a typhoon it was an invasion of a country that was reasonably intact when we invaded it. the iraqi deception has cost americans almost two trillion dollars according to some estimates. much of this public money has been directed to the defense industry. he says bad for business war tension is always very good for business so money of course was a major factor so the united states finds itself today essentially engaged in permanent war. and it's a permanent ward that that benefits some people there are some people and some entities that are making a lot of money. in from this endless war. profits rarely mentioned relegated to silence as all the americans who have died in iraq like the son of andrew bass of age killed may thirteenth two thousand and seven i think one of the

saddest aspects of our iraq war is how quickly americans have chosen to forget it. there seems to be an unwillingness on the part of the american people to acknowledge and to confront this enormous failure we aggressive deception is totally incompatible with the fundamental principle of democracy a failure the result of a manipulation that has shaken the confidence of americans in their own institutions. the man who wanted to see the end of saddam hussein did not want to see the end of iraq and he was sidelined an emissary of president bush told me if you oppose the policies of president bush we will bring to the full weight of the united states to bet against you i know that the americans are going to target me. well there was a there is a finding of the national security council signed by president bush

in april of two thousand and four and titled marginalise chalo. ten hours after this interview. he was found dead in his bed. an autopsy concluded it was a heart attack. saddam hussein arrested and judged is hung december thirtieth two thousand and six george bush is reelected in november two thousand and four richard cheney remains vice president colin powell leaves office in january two thousand and five conda lisa rice replaces him at the state department george tenet resigns in july two thousand and four citing personal reasons douglas pfeiffer resigns from the pentagon in january two thousand and five paul wolfowitz is appointed president of the world bank in june two thousand and five donald rumsfeld leaves the pentagon in november two thousand and

six. richard perle divides his time between washington and the surfer france. by the springtime flowers of a mountain lake. to the first snowfall on a winter's day. how there's been a massive cloud that has showers if you like develop ignores knowledge and seen and also in paraguay and that line takes you into southern parts of brazil's unfairly

heavy rains come out of these thunderstorms south of it's also become quite nice and warm that the breeze is given whereas harry's thirty degrees s. and since twenty nine but i think the showers if anything is develop and do for the south again which means that the cloud will take away your heat for unserious drop down to twenty four soon to write a steamy thirty two and these will be heavy shows running through paragraph maybe bits of your acquired this southern part of brazil topping up the reservoir north of the continent it's all gone quiet now you'd be lucky to see a share anyway throughout the caribbean even where they come and hit the coast of nicaragua this is just passing light show as a quite a breeze it has been windy at times as far south as panama pass for showers there are very few of them as you can see moving north as are the gulf of mexico into the u.s. where tears settling even if anything is going to get colder i think this mass which is all grey skies ease working slowly side and this quantum line of contrast here

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