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 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 subir was the diplomatic advisor to french president jacques chirac at the time said i felt you know ok you wanted

a cool extra morning he's expected to see you. much oil leak. i don't fully understand us you want us to this you each to pretty under to some about a commander extra. early 2003 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 r.u. minium 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 and yet it is the legal. issue would you give me. just under 6 on request easy or more policeman the vial that. general powell put in nations with the head of the cia behind him was acquired from a man which the named carl. 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 pound 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 don't you do it because the president alma do it taking their 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'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 14th at the u.n. domenic to fill pan states the french position these are still a force. if you. eat a young you know you don't it's even a game and on march 7th director general of the international atomic energy agency mohamed el baradei i denounce his bush's claims about the yellowcake from africa pale don't try to analyse die you have to conclude. with the concurrence of outside experts that means documents which formed the basis for the reports of race and unit the iranian transactions between iraq and these areas are in fact not i think 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. 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 z's documents were not authentic. in paris. announces that he will veto any resolution in favor of war. related i get it was all appeal to solution the americans will ignore the advice of some like the conclusions of bottle guy and the opinion of the un. the night of march 19th the war begins 3 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 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 16 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 yet 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 shoulder responsibility and george tenet releases a statement. the 16 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. this is fiction. it will be 3 years before bush admits that saddam did not have w m d's. the main 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 in iraq. 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 you 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 israel a 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 996 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 may and is up rooted 1000000 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 it 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 $2.00 trillion dollars according to some estimates. much of this public money has been directed to the defense industry. peace is 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. 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 13th 2007 i think one of the saddest aspects

of the 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 a listener of president bush told me if you oppose the policies of president bush we will bring the full weight of the united states to bear against you i know that they're not as are going to target me. that there was a there is a finding of the national security council signed by president bush

in april of 2004 and titled marginalise challenge. 10 hours after this interview. he was found dead in his bed. and autopsy concluded it was a heart attack. saddam hussein arrested and charged has hung december 30th 2006 george bush is reelected in november 2004 richard cheney remains vice president colin powell leaves office in january 2005 condoleezza rice replaces him at the state department george tenet resigns in july 2004 citing personal reasons douglas pfeiffer resigns from the pentagon in january 2005 paul wolfowitz is appointed president of the world bank in june 2005

donald rumsfeld leaves the pentagon in november 2006. richard perle divides his time between washington and the surfer france. hello there is still a very quiet picture across much of the middle east at the level it had across areas in the north but the bulk. the cloud once again of the law has been into southern areas of pakistan it's all tied of course to the monsoon rains and that cloud isn't just cloud it's also brought with it a cool some very heavy amounts of rain is an idea what is still on this in the streets in karachi people of course still trying to go about their daily business but really made quite difficult and certainly very unpleasant now there is more rain in the fall cause although it does tend to ease off certainly on wednesday

into crop she can see quite a lot of flow they've also got more clouds around as well elsewhere not see bobby go want to showers just working their way own the essentials of the black sea they tend to stay in the picture. on a little bit low this time was in karachi with a high of 32 celsius as well then we have further to the saudi arabian peninsula and again these monsoon rains in particular the cloud associated with them spreading all the way across the south indian ocean pushing as you can see right the way across into southern sections of the arabian peninsula and staying in the forecast as we head into thursday 33 celsius in most gas and we've got 43 in doha so feeling pretty hot and humid of course southern africa is colder in the south into capetown 15 degrees but a warm day wednesday and up with a high of 20 to. 80 percent of the visually impaired could be cued with access to treatment. where

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and welcome to al-jazeera live from my headquarters in doha with millions of applaud and also ahead round 2 democratic presidential candidates go head to head in detroit. one year on since the bubble outbreak can do ya see you will look at what's being done to combat the deadly epidemic plus. i'm in normandy where the demolition of this dam spoke to buchtel between 2 opposing environmental visions.