some of the world's most powerful scientists speak out. on a zero. hello i'm maryam namazie in london just a quick reminder of the top stories now president on hold trump is saying the posho u.s. government shutdown could last for more than a year if he does not get funding for a wall along the u.s. border with mexico trump has been holding emergency talks with congress at the white house they have accused trump of holding the american people hostage the shutdown is now in its fourteenth day and has meant hundreds of thousands of government employees a working without pay also toll certain services of also have been restricted trump says he made cool a national emergency in order to build the wall we're very proud of the jobs in the jobs numbers that was incredible and i think i'll be even more proud if we could

have great border security for the first time in really the history of our country the southern border is a dangerous horrible disaster we've done a great job but you can't really do the kind of job we have to do on unless you have a major powerful barrier and that's what we're going to have to have well trump made those comments following a meeting with senior democrats senate minority leader chuck schumer insists the issue must be separated from government funding we told the president we needed the government open he resisted in fact he said he'd keep the government closed for a very long period of time months or even years. the discussion then just that we discussed a bunch of issues as the leader said that was somewhat contentious and we'll continue discussing of course. but. it's very hard to see how

progress will be made unless they open up the government the us secretary of state my point is to seek an update on saudi arabia's investigation into the murder of jamal khashoggi next week during a trip to riyadh was last seen entering the saudi consulates in october in istanbul a seven day middle east tour will also include visits to the united arab emirates egypt and kasa president jordan has more now from washington. it's going to be holding a couple of strategic dialogues while he is in kuwait and qatar he's going to be talking about security issues namely syria iraq the situation regarding iran and the ongoing efforts to try to broker peace between the israelis and the palestinians and he is going to be looking at more local issues and as well areas where are the u.s. like able to weaponize some help we know for example that he will be raising the

question of the ongoing rift within the gulf cooperation council or g.c.c. while he is meeting with officials in qatar during his trip eight days eight countries a lot of work is facing the secretary of state on this his first full fledged trip to the middle east or has visited saudi arabia the united arab emirates and jordan before in his first year but this is first full trip to the region certainly the secretary is going to find himself answering a lot of questions about what kind of posture the u.s. is going to have in the region once the president's desire to pull u.s. forces out of syria takes place he's also going to have to answer questions about the u.s. plans to withdraw half of its troops from afghanistan the leaders in the region have a lot of questions about whether this means that the u.s. is going to be changing its security relationship with them relationships that have been built up over the better part of forty in some cases fifty years and so he

will be having a lot of discussions with regional leaders about how the u.s. military drawdowns are going to affect the security posture and really affect what the expectations can be not just from the united states but from countries in the region as well very much a key part of his travels the discussions about syria and afghanistan. a pump a a is. outstrip comes as the saudi court held its first hearing on case with the death penalty being sought for five of the eleven suspects but the united nations human rights office has called the trial not sufficient. saying with al-jazeera up next iraq a deadly deception. 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 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 powell 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 safeguard it is a strategic break from the more modest policy so bush is pretty sessoms. 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 and financing of terrorist organizations we were never going to get it

under control. and ambitious program from all out war a goal in line with neoconservative policy and thinking an approach supported by richard powell. dick cheney donald rumsfeld condoleezza rice paul wolfowitz douglas feith these are the advisors who have bush's either. joe wilson a career diplomat witnessed the rice. they came into office with the republican party and particular with the staffing done by the vice president in 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 some two 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 iraq and saddam hussein is the real problem. new goals were defined change the regime in baghdad to subjugate iraq a simpler objective. and that of destroying the elusive terrorist. september nineteenth those in support of eliminating 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 that inclusion 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 there. 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 appears eager to move on to another war i stand by those words afghanistan is still just a beginning if anybody harbors or terrorists or terrorists if they fund a terrorist they're a terrorist if they have terrorists 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. it 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 were decimating his people saddam remained in power . in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight he drove out 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 the arcade. terrorist network inside afghanistan it will take as long as it takes thank you off. 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 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 they 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's site was found any rock since one thousand nine hundred ninety one the specialists of alex running 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.

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 our gas because 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 bad but 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 the act was by following a u.s. army which was dispensing with the current government and with saddam hussein. overlooked by bill clinton chalo be 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 in 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 one 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 w l d's. 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 exaggerate us 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 gathers 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 and. george tenet director of the cia grudgingly supports the information before congress. i have 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 from . 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 drum beats 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 they're honest understand so was there any. good in london player comes to the aid of his friend bush's and publishes a dossier on the iraqi weapons. 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 or 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 and kind of puts the pressure on the intelligence agencies to come up with something. the most memorable moments with al-jazeera was when i was on air as hosni mubarak fell we have the crowds in tahrir square toolkit. if something happens anywhere in the world how does iraq is in place with able to cover this like no other news organization. were able to do it properly. that is all straight. a lot again of television

controlled by belly but it's tremendous from the potential so i think and he was determined to go on could use it at the point to the sword to avenge its people slaughtered eighty eighty years he smashes the frankish on the couch as the king of jerusalem he sees is the true problem and this is the great military victory the crusade an arab perspective episode three unification of this time on a just. discovered a wealth of all good winning programming from around the globe. fearless jones said the government seems to have lost cultural the balance of power is in favor of the . debates and discussion you get why there's a lot of disillusionment with the un across the globe powerful documentary. from a different perspective. only on al-jazeera. hello

i'm maryanne demasi in london just a quick update of the top stories now president all trump says the partial u.s. government shutdown could last for more than a year if he doesn't get funding as proposed border wall with mexico has been holding emergency talks with congressional leaders at the white house they have accused trump of holding the american people hostage shutdown is now in its fourteenth day and it's meant hundreds of thousands of government employees a working without pay or not a toll trump says he might call a national emergency in order to build the wall we're very proud of the jobs and the job numbers it was incredible and i think i'll be even more proud if we can

have great border security for the first time. in really the history of our country the southern border is a dangerous horrible disaster we've done a great job but you can't really do the kind of job we have to do on less you have a major powerful barrier and that's what we're going to have to have well the democrats are insisting though that the issue of the border wall has to be separated from government funding we told the president we needed the government open he resisted in fact he said he'd keep the government closed for a very long period of time months or even years. the discussion then despite we discussed a bunch of issues as the leader said there was somewhat contentious and will continue discussing of course but. it's very hard to see how progress will be made unless they open up the government in all the developments in

washington u.s. secretary of state might be on bio is to seek an update on saudi arabia's investigation into the murder of jamal khashoggi next week during a trip to riyadh shoji was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul in october has said there was no direct evidence connecting saudi crown prince mohammed bin soundman to the murder pump a zero seven day middle east will also include visits to the united arab emirates egypt and cattle. pump has announced trip comes as the saudi court held its first hearing on case with the death penalty being sought for five of the eleven suspects the united nations human rights office though has called the trial not sufficient and we more on all of our top stories in the news hour in twenty five minutes time to join me then by and. 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 they sent in the 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 in 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 role to in the course of history for 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 photo 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. and the iraqi exiles and it leaves the antiwar proponents with a bitter taste of defeat. really. with the vote of congress secured it is no time to rally public support to do so they have a dossier on hand. remember that dossier from rome 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 chad on local made the wall of it with you you will see it called corner let me introduce the police women in it let brazen enough at that it. but they will tease out. that food soldier is martino a long time sees me agent in former two french british and american secret services

he is the one who circulated the 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 rhenium 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. 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 some 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. and zubin young co has been demanding a commission of inquiry for years. if i took it usually in opposed to the

eighty that up but then into the visit of e.c. cases come to that then that it cases come down to. a question format should it not at all not cause at the pits a negative at. 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 an hour 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 and as

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 that 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 code. 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 attempt to acquire nuclear material in the. 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 favorite 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 rainy of minds looked into the yellowcake affair and concluded it was fraudulent. dilla subir was the diplomatic advisor to french president jacques chirac at the time and said i felt a little kid you wanted a cool extra morning oh please explain. your. ideal much oily do you know that. i don't fully understand us you want us to this 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 which would. be. if we. just. lost it all more policeman the vile that.

general powell put in nations with the head of the cia behind him was acquired from a man which the 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 like yeah he did. why you do it because the president tolomeo it taking the case to the u.n.

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 but washington applies an indisputable logic of saddam hussein in the case that he has weapons of mass destruction that 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'll 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 force. if you. eat a young you know even again 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 program analysis. has concluded. with the

concurrence of outside experts that means documents which form the basis for the reports of release and you don't need the iranian transactions between iraq and these areas are in fact not i think we have therefore conclude that the least specific allegations are unfounded. well we know it's a forgery now and we know that our country suffered the indignity of the. a 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 disease documents were not authentic. in paris jack shit like announces that he will veto any resolution in favor of war. like that i get it was all

a pure decision the americans will ignore the advice of right 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 but 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 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. when 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 a 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. 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 and april of two thousand and four and titled marginalise challenge. ten hours after this interview he was found dead in his bed. and 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.

hello again welcome back where across queens last over the next few days we're going to be seeing the possibility of the same cyclon that you've been dealing with now making its way back so that is plenty out there in the coral sea right now it's basically stationary but we've through thing to happen is that this storm is going to be making its way back towards the west and could be a threat by the time we get to early next week so that is something we'll be watching as we go towards sunday out here towards the southwest it is going to be those temperatures perth a high temperature few of thirty seven degrees well as you make your way over here towards new zealand well things not looking too bad for most of the areas particularly here towards north island we're looking at some better conditions down here toward the south though we are seeing some clouds in your forecast things get a little bit better as we go towards the weekend maybe some clouds exposure down

here towards the southern part of the south island but auckland a very nice day at about twenty five on saturday making its way to twenty four on sunday for christian church more rain in your forecast by the time we get to the afternoon and then here across parts of japan we are looking at still a combination of rain and snow for much of the area to simply snow in the higher elevations up toward sapporo your high temperature only minus one here on saturday and by the time we get to sunday we are going to be seeing some less snow but a temperature still a minus two. on counting the cost it was the worst performing stock market of twenty eight seen find out where china is headed in twenty ninety brazil's new president has an economic challenge plus taxing times for technology giants and frogs at a profit warning from apple. counting the cost. an

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