the war on terror the bush and cheney brothers. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions considerable break through it's already been made who can you trust no one who is in view with a global mission or is it where we had a state controlled capitalism is called sasha's when nobody dares to ask we do our t. question more. it's.

all about the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour a recent leak on the site wiki leaks shows disturbing evidence of a massacre of iraqi would women and children in the hands of u.s. soldiers so it was incident be the straw that breaks the american wars camel's back and later dick cheney got five draft or permits blog started wars as a word for that i'll share with you in tonight's guilty. so much for shock and awe a new wiki leaks release details shock and horror in iraq one of the latest

leaked state department cables alleges that back during bush's presidency in two thousand and six u.s. troops executed at least ten iraqi civilians including five children and four women and then called in an airstrike to destroy the evidence at the time bush's military officials denied the incident but as wiki leaks release shows a un special investigator uncovered evidence to the contrary noting that more reports showed that all the victims were handcuffed and shot in the head execution style investigator philip alstom research rights and. cable us troops enter the house and cuffed all residents and executed all of them after the initial intervention a u.s. air raid ensued it destroyed the house so why is it that we have to rely on wiki leaks again to reveal to the american people the horrors of war and just how widespread is this sort of gruesome behavior or military operations in the middle east joining me now for some answers is raija our enemy and iraqi american blogger

political analyst who was just interacting weeks ago very welcome to the program thank you for having me thanks for joining us is this is shocking is a seen as or is this just how war is it is jockey but not for the reasons that the us all of us would think i think iraqis are used to these types of stories you know this particular. useable because the iraq you need to get the top of it and then the iraqi human rights organization called tom what are you. exposing on this particular story i was surprised to be because the u.s. public don't seem to know much about this and i think the story here is the couple of the help of the incident of the of the crime itself because they went back for example through march of two thousand and six and they saw all of the news on the new york times or the nonsense of the country going to god in this incident it just

sounds like any other incident that the u.s. military was driving someone shot at them someone from my sky that was there they shot back it got to this guy and there was some kind i thought of damage this is what we hear every day in the news the new york times bought that they need to do broadcasting the same things that they were told by the military and i think that is the story this exposes how the war machine works we have hundreds of this story that happened and all of them were caught by the media the pentagon and the government. to what extent is that different or is it not for that matter from the covers of cover ups of atrocities committed by other governments by saddam hussein's own government to reign government you know with that long war by. again the kind of variation of you know they say war is hell and in my opinion when george bush and dick cheney lied us into this war they opened the gates of hell.

isn't there a certain amount of this tragically just always comes along with war you're going to have some fairly very bad actors they're drawn to i completely agree with you i think what's happening in iraq and what this incident shows is not an occupation and belittle your position that has gone wrong but was mismanaged i think this is how military occupations look like it's just in a war this is how it looks like and so when they when they put eleven members of a family in the room and execute them i think warm for air strikes to cover up but that doesn't seem like a good incident you know no one would come with come up with such a sophisticated scheme and execute eleven people with cold blood one time you know this is. maybe a baby at a current event that has been happening in iraq when we talk about a million iraqis killed and the last few years alone you know these numbers are huge numbers and these incidents explain how iraq looked and it still looks like on

a daily basis you just came back for the what is the perception of iraqis by iraqis of america and what isn't there a certain damned if we do damned if we don't right now i mean if if we pull out there's going to be a certain type of crisis if we don't pull out there's going to be another kind of crisis. can you describe what those might be i don't think so i disagree with this notion that if we withdrew the sky would fall on iraq use or if we withdrew and give iraqis back their freedom but we would be irresponsible as americans on how iraqis would run their own nation these are you know not realistic it's good you put that in the very paternalistic does not view iraqis as as beauty humans who can't be cured of themselves i think the way that iraq is viewed the u.s. in general is not believing it but the iraqis view the u.s. and iraq is very negative. people hate the u.s. in iraq you don't want the u.s.

to be in iraq and i think they want to things to stop these incidents from happening they want number one the u.s. to withdraw completely before the end of this year but president obama has promised a number to all of these incidents the police to be investigated so that iraqis who were harmed are compensated and the criminals who are behind. our interest must you've written about this of a president or obama saying he's going to pull out of iraq and you know i think there's a lot of skepticism in this country especially after we just built this massive palace there he was embassy but nonetheless if he does what is the most likely outcome in iraq is it is a possible the country will split up and you know the various factions or will there be another strong man or could there be a full blown democracy or will become an islamic state or what in your opinion you've been there i think i think all the. most abilities for the future of iraq and iraqis will decide what they want they want to see the looks like for us it's

their choice they want to understand is their choice as well as a secular person i would like to see a secular democracy there have a secular democracy here in the u.s. as well was a very. good word but i think i think iraqis can truth whatever works for the country and i think the government's plan for withdrawal is not under your stick the u.s. is planning to withdraw all the department of defense jobs by the end of this you're bringing down down the number to zero a u.s. soldiers and bases but there is other types of intervention but the u.s. is still there are around sixteen thousand personnel who will stay with the state department and i think those should leave as well within the next few years but when it comes to the withdrawal of this year i'm not but a skeptic and i think it is doable but i think it is a must actually but president obama if it fits his promises let's hope you're right thanks so much of it was sort of an estimation. it's time to end the senseless

violence called back the dogs or. is my opportunity to share with you some of the week's most bewildering interesting or weird science news this in all a b.p.a. is a chemical that the body reacts to as if it were that it estrogen is commonly used polycarbonate plastic and resin line food and beverage containers here in the united states where it's still legal it's been outlawed in much of europe it can be found here and almost anything packaged in flexible soft plastic or lined with plastic for baby bottles containers even soda cans and energy drinks doesn't just change your body the way hormones do by causing girls to reach puberty early as

we've seen here in the united states over the past thirty years there's some concern that b.p. is causing this but now we've discovered that it goes beyond that it actually changes our genetic code exposure of lab animals and sell a models to doses of beauty eight even below the recommended tolerable daily intake have been shown to alter specific estrogen responsive genes it's changing our gene so in fact rats exposed to b.p. in test labs develop breast and testicular cancer diabetes and hyperactivity its effect on humans is not entirely known and the manufacturers of b.p.a. in their lobby has continued to claim that it's safe. but a new study shows pretty solidly the b.p.a. can trigger hormone responsible gene changes in humans and international research team collected blood and urine from ninety six human males subjects as urinary markers of b.p.a. exposure rose the likelihood that estrogen responsive genes were activated in the

blood also increased and the doses of b.p.a. the list of these changes were about what the general population is exposed to in their daily use of products made with b.p.a. the authors of the study of included the b.p.a. is active in humans and that it can be linked biologically to formal and signaling and related disorders in humans and that includes things like diabetes by road diseases and obesity so you might want to rethink that next so probably made by passing through plastic tube so often to b.p.a. is there for packing a double whammy of a health right. after the break for our so-called news loves to call people anti-american or un-american in my daily take hold see how much they like it when the tables are drawn. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to

break through get through and if you have made who can you trust no one who is you me you who with the global machinery see where we had a state controlled capitalism is called satchels when nobody dares to ask we do our t. question more. fun. for. yes.

your take my take is the part of our show where you get a chance to make yourself heard our first comments and i came to us via twitter dick cheney has been back in the headlines this week as he travels the country to tout his new version of history in my time cheney continues to defend the crimes lies in trotsky's that he and president bush sanctioned over the slim disguise of keeping the homeland safe but this week former chief of staff to colin powell lawrence wilkerson told a.b.c. news that cheney was president for all practical purposes for the first term of the bush administration and for years being tried as a war criminal last night things got a little heated here in the big picture when i asked to conservative commentators whether we should try to cheney for war crimes here at gitmo or let the world try him in the hague. nine eleven happened because this guy refused to do anything for eight months how can you go out some minutes account is this is the america islamic

it still is going to the america of those islamic extremists attacked america they're the ones that is in charge of the counterterrorism task force that never met until september of two thousand and eleven how do you do it spelling out. course i meant the change has forced didn't even meet once until september two thousand and one all the while our allies in england france israel and russia were warning us that something big was coming all the while richard clarke and others were running around the national security system when to use clarke's term their hair on fire because they knew something big was coming and cheney was too busy with vacations in wyoming and lunches with his oil be industry buddies to bother with worrying about an attack that might happen and did happen on his watch joseph tweeted after that segment i saw you got a big a bit of emotional during your debate regarding dick cheney's war crimes i have to say is it's about. well joseph this is a topic that always gets me riled up all the way back to the one nine hundred

seventy s. and cheney and rumsfeld helped start the committee for the present danger and began us lean fear as a way of getting political power and getting rich this means been a curse on this country i'll tell you how i really feel at the end of the show tonight and i still take our next comment is also from twitter i'm sure by now you've all heard that president obama agreed to move his address to a joint session of congress where he'll unveil his jobs plan from wednesday evening of next week to thursday evening after house speaker john boehner decided to show who's really in charge here in d.c. of course is just a mere coincidence thursday night is the n.f.l. season opener and it's just a conspiracy theory that the republicans want the president to compete with the saints and the packers and the perry and romney rob tweeted obama will have to compete was saints vs the socialists a lot of the game on mute and listen to obama i believe green gold. the republicans may have pulled off an illegal block in the back against president obama but white

house communications director dan pfeiffer acknowledged today that not even the president would dream of competing with football. what everyone in america should be rest assured is that we will be done before kickoff in the. thursday night so no worries there are going to have some serious competition the pre-game show any of it's scripted no the some things are still sacred you know we seem to be entering the season of solutions the president is unveiling a jobs plan that the white house says will definitely get bipartisan support jon huntsman has unveiled his jobs plan mitt romney will be unveiling his jobs plan on tuesday and an hour after president obama asked for a joint session of congress yesterday john boehner said he'll give his own speech on the economy and jobs on september fifteenth let's hope that our elected leaders put all of this talk into action and he has partisanship aside long enough to put people back to work people's lives depend on it on the other hand if republicans can block president obama from doing anything successful for another fourteen

months they may well win the white house in the next election so i'm not holding my breath that's it for your take my take tonight if you'd like your comments and questions heard on this segment of the big picture listen up we want to know your to send us your comments by visiting the tom hartman facebook page but twitter and underscore her put her in the champ room on the message boards or the blog at heartland. can also leave a message general grant why it's good to buy three sixty three zero six agree disagree sound it's all the luck of the remember that your comments may be used on the year. currently i ruffled some feathers over the right wing web site news busters when i suggested that today's republican party is infected with a powerful strain of anti american ism. there is a powerful strain of anti-americanism that disguises itself as the republican party

and the so-called conservative movement. i think would horrify moderate conservatives like to eisenhower and even serious conservatives like barry goldwater who actually believe big government can be and should be a force for good but none of them would have gone so far as reagan did and say it government is not the solution the government is the problem. and i'm not really sure if the right wingers are upset with my argument or upset with the fact that i took the buzzword but this guy is so terrible that he continues to do things like this that are not anti-american they're on american because he's creating an un-american almost anti american mentality it's against the will of the people it's undemocratic it's an american this process through its fits into what i call anti american anti-constitutional that and a declaration that we have

a president is fine policy can only be described as anti american i agree it's time to start calling people up because there's no more room in this critical debate over america's future for individuals who are fundamentally anti-american that includes the politicians the so-called newsman the phony economists and the greedy c.e.o.'s who have no problem destroying this nation just for a few bucks they spew poll tested terms like job creators to push for even more tax breaks for transnational corporations that already pay nothing in texas all forgetting that this nation was founded as a result of an anti corporate revolt against the world's largest transnational corporation at the time of british east india teacup. they call puckster is like thomas friedman it's out so-called free trade policies and sell off our factories and manufacturing jobs to the lowest bidders around the world while forgetting that our nation's first treasury secretary alexander hamilton george washington's

treasury secretary laid out an eleven point plan literally called the american way that promoted protectionism and promoted american industries and not so-called free trade and has good millionaires and billionaires the power to run amok in our politics claiming that corporations are people and as people we have the right to free speech and to dump as much money into our elections as they don't want to please off forgetting that none of the founding fathers considered corporations important enough to even mention them in our nation's constitution. and that the author of the declaration of independence and soft thomas jefferson had a deep seated mistrust of too much corporate power and thought tirelessly to include freedom from anomalies in the bill of rights jefferson described corporate powers the powers that be as the selfish spirit of commerce that knows no country and feels no passion or principle but that of again jefferson's tradition was

carried out by both republican and democratic presidents throughout the nation's history with for example president grover cleveland who said in his eight hundred eighty eight state of the union address as we view the achievements of aggregated capital we discover the existence of trusts combinations of monopolies by the citizen a struggle in far in the rear or is trampled to death but ethan irony he'll corporations which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people are fast becoming the people's masters or like republican president teddy roosevelt would challenge corporate power by passing the tillman act in one thousand and seven which reads simply as she'll be unlawful for any national bank or any corporation to make a monetary contribution in connection with any election to any political office and write franklin roosevelt who called the economic royalists economic shoals economic royalists at the one nine hundred thirty six democratic convention roosevelt

directed his speech at these economic royalists saying use economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of america what they really complain about is that we seek to take away their power our allegiance to american institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power in vain they seek to hide behind the flag in the constitution in their blindness they forget what the flag in the constitution stands for. thirty years ago riding the coattails of ronald reagan these economic royalists of return to power in america and have been in acting this nation with their anti american propaganda ever since trying to clog up everything was nation is accomplished in the new deal to the great society they are dismantling the very programs and institutions that americans have fought and died for from labor unions to the social safety net to the right to vote itself and they

do it the same way they did it roosevelt's time. in the flag in the constitution even worse these anti-american cowards beat the drum for war because they know that in times of war pay there is money to be made and that our nation is more vulnerable during times of war to an ideological takeover they rally around war criminals like it cheney whose incompetence is only outweighed by his brutality here's a man who was head of the anti-terrorism task force in the white house in two thousand and one who was warned by former vice president al gore to keep an eye out for al qaida and who neglected all one meat on the threat of terrorism but instead instead spent his time figuring out how to divvy up and sell off the well fields of iraq we got hit on nine eleven because dick cheney drop of oil he didn't keep us safe is guilty of gross negligence and a cover up his grotesque mistake cheney resorted to war crimes torture and illegal

invasions is nothing more anti-american than torture historian david fisher explained the sentiment of our founding fathers toward twork toward torture during the revolutionary war by writing american leaders believed it was not enough to win the war they also had to win in a way that was consistent with the values of their society and the principles of their qualities. that's why when general george washington captured a thousand patients at the battle of trenton during our work of independence he carefully sentence directions to his soldiers and how to treat the prisoners writing this is george washington the general writing treat them with humanity and let them have no reason to complain of our copying the brutal example of the british army and their treatment of our unfortunate brethren provide everything necessary for them on the road unlike our nation's first president dick cheney sent down instructions to torture people until they gave phony confessions about phony w

m d's in iraq and then under his orders we went on to humiliate our prisoners of war in ways that would cause muslims around the world to actually watch and join al qaida and cheney wasn't satisfied with one will he got two wars and as he documented his new book he was pushing for an attack on syria he wanted three wars cheney wanted continual warfare continuous kickbacks to his defense contractor buddies and his own company halliburton was almost bankrupt when he went into office until his administration started handing the juicy no bid contracts to cheney would have horrified another one of our founding fathers james madison who famously said of all the enemies of true liberty war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other no nation can preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare cheney isn't just anti-american he's caused endless death and destruction around the world and is

responsible for the deaths of thousands and thousands of americans a crime he himself should answer for. the summary point is this is that when the billionaires have seized control of the light eisenhower's once proud republican party they are offering us today in their vision of america is more wars more billionaires and it devastated us for thirty years they've campaign and spoken openly about their dislike for our government big government terrible stuff that extraordinary gift our government that extraordinary gift that was created by the founding fathers is as reagan said the problem not the solution to our problems i beg to differ i love america i believe in america and i'm encouraged by the knowledge that most americans agree with that sentiment that america can be good it's time to quit pussy foot around and call the hustlers running the

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