by december and leaving behind a campaign that has so far cost the american taxpayer hundreds of billions of dollars next we talk to a man who says that the u.s. is wasting its cash trying to build a false democracy in that region or. i. were sitting down with peter van buren state department foreign service officer who a few years ago had it anyway radke reconstruction team then it came back home and wrote a book titled we meant well how i helped lose the battle for the hearts and minds of the iraqi people and now he says the state department one thing fired because of the book what what's in the book that they don't like so much stuff i'm sure when you throw parties the clowns they sometimes get angry state department is a lot like the mafia you don't talk about the family outside the family and the state department was i think bothered by the fact that i told the true story of

what happened in iraq which contradicts what they've been putting out through the media for almost eight years now tell me a little bit more about the projects that you were involved in as part of this nation building team that in the sponsored by the united states why do you think those projects failed around two thousand and seven a number of state department people were sent to iraq to spend a lot of money to rebuild the country and hopefully create a nation that was going to be our ally and friend and a happy spot in the middle east didn't work out that way. instead what happened was that we were sent over there with almost unlimited funds but no vision we had lots of time and lots of people but no one in charge we lacked many things including adult supervision so instead of the long term coordinated efforts that real development work requires we got short term efforts that were thrown together not

guided by any broader philosophy and almost were required to fail the very first thing that happened to me was i was presented by my team mates with a fraudulent receipt to sign they had over spent three thousand dollars on snacks for a conference and wanted me to sign off on a priest a receipt for printing to make it all right they then tried to talk me into spending twenty five thousand dollars to buy a few sheep to give away to a few widows and that was are going to be our contribution to democracy in the war effort the more i was a fraud it was as close to we were going to buy some sheep from a guy who was going to give them to his relatives who were going to raise them and put the rest in his pocket you could buy a toyota for what we were going to pay for sheep in iraq. the problem was that these were not isolated incidents what i thought might have been just a really bad first day at work turned out to be evocative of the entire year of our peoples and there was like a systematic squandering of resources there absolutely at the squandering of

resources occurred at very small levels of thousand dollars a couple thousand dollars here and there and zoomed all the way up into hundreds of millions of dollars that were spent on hospitals that never opened or prisons that never took any prisoners in the united states lacked a plan constantly being forced into short term solutions we were constantly being asked to produce publicity stills and have something ready by next thursday for the photographers to show up c.n.n. is coming over the weekend better get something ready none of these things were part of the long term the slow work of development that really is necessary if you're serious about rebuilding a country i want to read something to him really serious some use i write the government watch stocks of raised the alarm about billions of dollars of war zone waste and fraud are falling silent or are missing in action this new. item is actually about the commission and wartime contracting and that charter that they were working under it has expired and has not being renewed and i'm just going to

tell our viewers that this commission on wartime contracting claimed waste and fraud may have siphoned off up to sixty billion dollars from contracts in iraq and afghanistan now this watch stock could be out of business are you surprised who might be interested in it i'm actually ashamed that the commission on wartime contracting is going out of business and there's actually more to it than even the story that you just shared with your viewers first of all the state department has attempted to exempt itself from the scrutiny of the committee that you refer to the state department has claimed that it was not part of wartime contracting that it was involved in diplomacy. and therefore not controlled by that organization and they didn't want them to peek into what the state department was doing even worse the committee as it's dissolved has sealed all of its records and no one will be allowed to see any of the results of its work except what's already been published until two thousand and thirty one so the things that the committee on wartime

contracting uncovered the incredible amounts of waste fraud and mismanagement that they documented in the limited public documents that they do produce all of that is being swept away i don't know how old i'm going to be in two thousand and thirty one i'm going to be a lot older than i am now but it's shameful shameful that we will not be able to see that information why aren't they allowed to publish that before they eat official version is that there may be classified information in some of their reports that needs to remain undercover for that long i think most intelligent people realize that the reporting from the committee is so horrific it needs to be put away to avoid embarrassing the government even further the u.s. government says we brought freedom and democracy to iraq doesn't matter on what grounds will end if they're true or false they prove to be false but anyways we got

rid of a terrible man in power and we are building a democratic society there that's the argument you wear out there in the field what is the reality on the ground as you saw it first of all i don't think you can dismiss so casually because it's that sent america to war in iraq we entered the iraq war under the guise of looking for weapons of mass destruction when we didn't find any as if there ever worry we then changed it to the new medium which is all we got rid of saddam he was a terrible man and brought freedom to iraq. saddam was not a nice guy i'm not here to defend him no one could possibly defend his actions however. we killed over one hundred thousand iraqi citizens some of them were killed or rectory by the united states some of them were killed in the sectarian violence that we set loose in the aftermath of our invasion of iraq today remains in the bottom percentages of any statistic the u.n. cares to count access to water access to medical care access to education iraq is

not a place that represents the investment of sixty three billion dollars in reconstruction funds iraq has had a number of elections but it doesn't have a democracy press reports are constantly reporting secret prisons militias targeted killings government killing soldiers people in military uniforms committing assassinations bombs going off none of those things are indicative of democracy i think if that's what freedom represents most iraqis are not very comfortable with it and i think the united states failed in its efforts to bring freedom to iraq there's one thing that very few in washington admit and that is that is the heat. actually they're talking about whether or not it was immoral to invade iraq a but not quite about defeat and what were you writing in this book is like a raw material of failure or do you really see it as such as

a defeat absolutely i actually title the title of the book actually includes the catchphrase i helped lose this war and i accept my responsibility for not doing better than i should have and have i'm very most americans really don't understand why their government continue spending so much money in iraq they were told about that with drawls by next year and now they hear that washington is maneuvering to stay there be that deadline what's your feeling why it is washington want to stay in iraq who benefits from it i myself i'm not sure why the united states has spent and continues to spend so much money in iraq i think one of the old sayings when you're in a hole the first thing you do is stop digging does apply. the united states has said that if someone benefits from it so one does not know the iraqi people they made it clear that they don't you know they but they but do they have a say when their government gets all that money from the u.s. and essentially does no i don't think any of the money is going to the iraqi people

i think a lot of the money their government is going to government leaders i think a lot of the money just disappears no one knows where billions of dollars actually physically actually went however it is interesting to note that iraq is planning to buy a lot of weapons from the united states iraq is hoping to buy a number of f. sixteen s they already have bought and will continue to buy and one tanks from us all of these are very expensive toys and more importantly come with very long tails each of these tanks requires maintenance requires spare parts requires extra equipment and requires trainers and mechanics it's not like buying a car where you get the state department pushes those contracts oh i know for a fact that we do it's one of the duties of the state department is to help sell american products overseas and we work very closely in a number of countries around the world with the military in order to sell american weapons that's not a secret to iraq in any way whatsoever foreign military sales represent

a significant duty of the military in conjunction with the state department for seat what is difficult about iraq is that this is a country that doesn't seem in a position to afford these type of things iraq is a country where people don't have access to water don't have access to medical care don't have access to electricity and instead of spending on those things their government is buying weapons and indebting itself to the united states for years to come something seems wrong there now i understand what the state department wants you fired but thank you very much for this interview thank you very much i. culture is that so much i'm afraid we're going to be made a lot of people a jury of bloggers is the world populated as the world reaches still another population benchmark the debate continues as to whether the planning.

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to russian media he also warned that the military intervention could in the entire region. scores of occupy protesters are arrested across the united states and confrontations with police all the while. people from camping overnight meanwhile weather hits the east coast testing the determination to keep the corporate life. and feuding russian. through their fortunes at a high cost and u.k. . robbing him of billions of dollars something that chelsea f.c. . are you know there are the headlines for you now though to your world of sports in the most improbable of runs in the spanish football league comes to an end and indeed normally around this time of the season wary of course nine weeks. leading the way but i know it's only live but not anymore we're going to look at why that

is in just a second. thanks for joining us and this is sports today here in twenty four hour we have got plenty ahead this hour including. moving. into third spot in the russian. new truck same story f one champion sebastian vettel storms to victory at the north indian grand prix leaving from start to finish in delhi. top ten tennis star of. her views on next weekend's davis cup decider with first timers the czech republic. we start with. first win in three

games seem to rise to third place in the russian premier league the blue and white seeing off bottom dwellers in the first of sunday's two clashes the visitors essentially wrapping up victory in the opening half in siberia a pair of former but in this league a star is making the difference. sim of which getting things going with a sublime free kick twenty eight minutes in before kevin karami showed his coolly finding the space to finish to the back of the net six minutes from the break. with a final regular season clash with spartak moscow next weekend when he finished there . while in the last match of game week twenty nine. to do it for f.c. tarik in samarra the hosts taking the lead through anton barber with half an hour on the clock a direct running. would result in the game being tied one one after thirty six

minutes but the second half will be on to crewe. for his team eight minutes after half time two on the final score to try. over to the top of them have joined chelsea and newcastle in third place in the premier league that's off the spurs took care of london rivals queens park rangers on sunday brace for bale some which by a. strike. did reply for rangers but it was the home side who dominated a white hart lane. is now able to post a record of six wins from seven games. the action continues later on monday with the newcastle evening to take control of the third position from. the magpies are way to mid table stoke newcastle leaders manchester city are the only unbeaten side so far this. there are a league table has a more familiar ring to it this monday with real madrid and barcelona the sights to

catch however that is only after the leaders heading into the weekend so for their first loss of the campaign little advantage he brought down to earth and off the sooner the side's free flowing attack which had serve them so well this month have wide pamplona cejudo getting off to soon off the mark just minutes from the break that was followed up moments later by a spot of head tennis one francisco nino eventually getting things grounded but made it to nil and that was the final reckoning the surrendering the chance to again move top of the league. it's business as usual in the form no one truck the man already crying champion this season sebastian vettel winning the an orbital indian grand prix in new delhi prior to the race there was a minute's silence for a talian moto g.p. rider marco sim and shelley who died in a crash last week in malaysia to the action where vettel who started from paula

gradually increased his advantage over the chasing pack early on and he never looked back the german eventually finishing it point four seconds ahead of the current jenson button for henri's fernando alonso was a distant third almost twenty five seconds behind the winner bettles red bull teammate mark webber was fourth and after the race the double world champion took the time to remember them and charlie on down the indy car star who tragically died a week before the attack. on the one hand i'm very very happy is the first grand prix in india and i'm very proud to be the first winner and i think we can be as a team but on the other hand looking back at last weekend we lost two of our mates . yeah i didn't know dan wheldon but obviously it was a big it was a big name in motorsport i got to know this year marco simoncelli and obviously our thoughts are with them. the pittsburgh steelers have sent out a warning to the rest of the n.f.l.

after a surprise win over super bowl favorites and ben roethlisberger desexing the patriots defense to overcome tom brady and co by twenty five points to seventeen the steelers had lost one game to the brady led patriots in their last seven contests pittsburgh deciding to go against the grain this time mike using short passes all game long typical new england style and funk and it worked ruthless berger opening the scoring with a pos to. really meanwhile was constantly harassed by the steelers defense he still putting a huge hit on the thirty four year old jarring the ball loose troy polamalu on hand to send the ball all the way back for a two point safety score twenty five seventy the final score. the rams seem to benefit from world series baseball champions they say louis cardinals being in attendance for their clash the home team stunning the new orleans saints for their first win of the season stephen jackson with the game's first touchdown making it ten zero the same two are still trailing by ten in the

fourth before daryn stewart intercepted drew brees taking for six the game was to belong to the rams though fighting back to secure the ten point advantage thirty one twenty one the finals. members of the cardinals squad picked up brahms jerseys and other football memorabilia the game and continued their baseball celebrations thousands of fans all wearing red swarming done time to get a glimpse of the twenty eleven world series champions triumph over the texas rangers in the final best final game of the best of seven final series giving the cards their second title since two thousand and six and now this victory riot is the ultimate reward for winning for elimination games in the postseason to clinch the title salutes were within the shrike from losing in game six before an amazing rally comes off a ten. nine when friday's six two win in game seven completing an amazing run of

results the question of course can they do it again next year. who bet against them tennis were petrified of has won the end of season w t a championship in istanbul following a three said victory over victoria azarenka twenty one year old czech if he did it edging out tight opener seven five but her twenty two year old belarusian opponent stormed back in the second taking it six for that meant a decider the third set though was to belong to wimbledon champion convened about wrapping up the tournament on a six three scoreline the victory also ensuring to be devout will end the season run to career high number two in the world. will now leave the czech republic team in their fade cup final against russia next weekend viera is vulnerable finding first hand in istanbul what could be to do on the court losing to the wimbledon champ in straight sets in the group stages now r.t. caught up with the russian ahead of moscow's most of showdown.

they're special and you could never experience that when you play individual competition and definitely that. brings a lot of determination a lot of desire hopefully we can create great competition czech republic is very strong and very consistent they have a lot of good players. so it's going to be yeah it's going to be a. great player. and it's. great because we've got a lot of choices at the same time you know. because. sometimes we try to find the perfect combination between. trying to create. the best team sometimes it's not easy because we have so many. people and we want

everyone to play for the team but there are four players. i think the level of our team is very strong going to always support each other and we always. have been able to reach a point. you know i think people look at my season and i think they have a. perception because. finals last year. was a very consistent here for me in. that i lost in the grand slams they you know really well throughout the season i didn't really have bad matches throughout the whole season the first. deep into the tournament so i had a very consistent year no matter what and i think pretty satisfied about it of course i wanted to beat father and of course i wanted to reach another grand slam

final it's something. every single day i'm trying to improve. is yours for this or have a great hall or when i'll see you shortly whether it's next.

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