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infamous mercenary company undergoes a rebranded facelift in an effort to raise as wide a history and cash in on the country's in so uncertain future. now as the day draws closer for the u.s. to withdraw its troops from iraq we talk to one of the architects of the war in the country our interview is next. we're sitting down with one of the most controversial figures in the u.s. politics he was existent to secretary of defense under president reagan he was chairman of the defense policy board on the george w. bush and man who is seen by many as one of the chief architects of the war in iraq richard perle mr perle thank you very much for joining us what do you think washington's plans are with regard to iraq could we see another case for war being built against iran will the united states now is hoping that iran will see the

light. its nuclear weapons program but whether in the end we you or someone else decides that force is necessary to stop the nuclear weapons program i can't say i think we are at the moment pursuing diplomatic means economic sanctions. and the government hopes that the that will succeed i'm rather doubtful that we'll succeed here speculating on intentions as as it as it happened in iraq i mean the international atomic energy agency report said that iran might have the technology to build a nuclear an atomic weapon if it wants to but it's a long way to actually accusing a country of building a nuclear weapon isn't it well i'm willing to accuse iran of building nuclear weapons i don't think there's any question about it they're building missiles that only makes sense if they carry nuclear warheads they are paid an enormous cost

internationally by insisting. enriching nuclear material which will give them the opportunity to produce weapons grade material for atomic bombs or hydrogen bombs we now have from the i.a.e.a. a detailed account from a scientist who was in. all of the program and it leaves no question as to what they're doing i don't know why anyone has any doubts about what they're doing well the thing is the war in iraq has pretty much undermine the credibility of the us when it comes to starting wars and justifying wars and you were one of the key one of the chief architects of the iraq war and the allegation that many are making is that you are. including by members of the bush administration is that you were looking for any kind of thing in intelligence to justify an invasion no it's not true we were looking for intelligence would shed some light. on some important

questions like does have weapons of mass destruction is he in contact with terrorists what are the risks involved in revealing him in place after nine eleven when we discovered that we could be terribly vulnerable but the the belief that saddam hussein had weapons of mass destructions was not based on any one intelligence informant it was mostly based on the fact that we knew a lot about things that saddam had acquired for example the chemicals that you would need to put together but again it's the same with iran you are making assumptions that they have the material they have the technology and therefore they have the weapons well what are you suggesting that we stop trying to figure out whether iran has nuclear weapons because there were intelligence errors with

respect to iraq they were not or states dismantle its intelligence organizations but who of course not they're going to listen to you say you acknowledge yet do you acknowledge that the case for war in iraq in two thousand and three was a mistake you know what i. acknowledge is that. some. some of the ideas that they behind particularly the idea that saddam had weapons of mass destruction were wrong he didn't have weapons of mass destruction and we believed he did but the argument for removing saddam did not depend on the specifics of whether he had weapons of mass destruction or not was an element but it wasn't the whole story by any means because he'd have weapons of mass destruction in the past and there was no reason to believe he couldn't get them again in the future he just didn't have the myth the moment that the cia believed he did could never understand

. if the administration really believed that saddam had weapons of mass destruction they wouldn't have attacked iraq i mean what if the guy pushed the button right it's simple logic that suggest that they'd ministration knew that he had nothing that's why they went for it it's not. that's just not true and it's not logical live. we would leave it be too dangerous to attack if we actually had a well we believe that he had chemical and biological weapons and we took enormous precautions to deal with that so that every american who went into iraq was equipped to deal with a chemical weapons attack which we expected to happen and it didn't happen why doesn't anybody attack north korea i mean they they have a bomb why doesn't anybody attack north korea well because everybody knows they have the bombs way right where we we don't attack everyone who has

a nuclear weapon that's. that's clear i think is a pretty good case for trying to change the regime in. in north korea. i don't think you could do that by bombing north korea. but if what you are suggesting is that once a country has a nuclear weapon no one will attack it out of a fear that it will use its nuclear weapons there is an element of truth to that but in the case of north korea the situation between north and south korea is such that even if north korea didn't have a nuclear weapon they haven't an ability to inflict terrible damage on the capital of south korea because they have thousands of artillery pieces within range of seoul and that is a very powerful deterrent against taking action do you still believe it was the

right decision to go to to invade iraq i think the decision was based on what we knew at the time and based on what we knew at the time it was the right decision i don't believe it was carried out very effective and that's the tragedy instead of turning things over to the iraqis more or less immediately we got involved in an occupation and occupations are never popular and the fact that we were an occupying power recognized as such but you know nations by the way was very important in the development of the insurgency against the occupation i think it would have been a different situation the u.s. went from you know it was weapons of mass destruction and ties with terrorism and then it became all about democracy the idea that the u.s. has to in far in force democracy wherever it can i believe that that's the idea

that you share no it's not but if you were you move you really are saying that we should encourage instead an audible military means. not like in iraq no iraq we went into iraq not to establish a democracy we went into iraq because the administration believed that saddam hussein's iraq was a threat to the united states why didn't the us just get out of iraq as soon as they found out that there is nothing there what they should have done. you have to have to ask george bush why he didn't do that do you think iraq's vast oil reserves had nothing to do with the decision to go to iraq i don't believe that. we went into iraq because iraq has a world with that's the question iraq has a world to be sure and if we need oil from iraq we'll buy it we don't seize other people's oil fields and send the oil back to the united states we buy

oil we import roughly half of our oil so what you're saying you couldn't afford having saddam hussein getting rich and powerful considering to hated america it wasn't just rich and powerful it's a question of what behavior one could anticipate and he had invaded kuwait as we know he had invaded iraq as we know. nobody knew what he was going to do next there has been a number of surveys that show that america has never been as hated in the muslim world as it is now where is this coming from and how should the u.s. address this well i don't know. what we can do affectively to counter that i mean we're not alone in that the united kingdom is hated in the muslim world rush's hated in the muslim world you're saying russia is hated in the muslim world as much as they can wes's well i don't know who is hated more i know but i know that a lot of the people who would wish to inflict injury on the united states would also

wish to inflict injury on russia as as we've seen with the. so max. in russia if we are hated and part of the explanation for that is that we are resisting. their. messianic belief in. in the superiority of islam that's just too bad country saying the u.s. also has a messianic belief or faith superiority over other countries i wouldn't use the word messianic but superior we're proud of what we've accomplished if you're self defense makes people angry makes you hate or your right to defend yourself i have to say we are right to defend ourselves even if one of the consequences will seem time or terror even if some people side to become terrorists because they don't like the fact that we've defended ourselves what's the altogether seems to be

a vicious circle well it's it's not a pleasant thing what do you do not defend yourself and say well if i defend myself there cannot defend against a country that never attacked the u.s. i mean i mean iraq defending yourself against a presumption of a potential attack that's what we're talking about it wasn't an immediate danger that the us was confronting in iraq i was watching a documentary about you when i was getting ready for this interview and i remember this mother of an american soldier who died in iraq and she was crying and shouting at you you are and man of mass destruction how do you deal with situations like that you must have come across seems like that way often in the past it's very unpleasant to what can you do i understand the mother's grief so. you know i'm not angry about it i understand it but it's unpleasant thank you

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the meantime let's see what's happening in sports with richard. welcome disposed of a great to have you with us as always with the headlines. targeting top sports look much t.v. go to wunderlich both sides aiming to win group unavoidable munched the club's europa league place. back on the ice we look at all he. will go on and that. will be playing grand one time in school. and them a legend feel to him i mean his next finds against him limping judo champion on new year's eve in tokyo. but first a full bore until his money camps and to meet the last call for the following injury and travelled with the much of moscow to the belgian side until it when he's

battled to the song in the group l winners in the europa league the thirty seven year old midfielder has locos only done it with a fine injury where the russian saw it all fall into the winter break he does on the legs to finish the group with a perfect. record and the only team to have won all the matches so far but loko can win the group if they bet the earlier to nail to the base suffered to end the late in moscow loco could then avoid being drawn in the knockout round against such clubs as much the city amongst united drop into the competition from the champions league meanwhile under legs have lost their last two league games. meanwhile elsewhere in the europa league sporting lisbon have the luxury of a ready qualifying for the knockout stages to take a lot c.-o. portuguese outfits of also one of their group and could in their opponents' hopes of making the round of hurdle to tally inside the six bird in the group and last better pool rivals but series results to be of

a chance of qualifying remaining team have a better head to head record so even a win for lance still may not be enough. big spending parties are in a similar situation to lance ito aside from the french capital or inaction they can start letting bilbao have already secured their place as group winners however p.s.g. have a formidable home record there are eighteen months on beat and run in european competitions apart. but even if they manage to get all three points against their spanish opponents french outfit may still not qualifying a serious head to head record against their group rival salzburg they also have seven points. follow him are also looking to book their place in a round of birdie to however martin the old men have dystonia in their own hands and the londoners managed to beat the bottom side of ben said home two thousand and ten finalists move through to the knockout stages. meanwhile it's

a semi final stage of a fifo world club cup on wednesday with santos looking to become the competition's first finalist as they take on cashier what i saw all eyes are on the brazilian prodigy neymar a little bit of daughters holders are up against the local champions. and the nineteen year old says it's his dream to play against a man who is often compared to barcelona as leo messi in the decider. will face guitarist side of the other semifinal one neymar has been heavily linked passes arch rivals real madrid since september but has opted to stay in his native country at least for time being a move but and a lot of praise from his coach. i believe it's better for him to prepare for his home world cup based in brazil rather than go into europe. anyway by the time the world cup is over i think the people managing just

curious do the great job because right now he needs as much experience as a possible know is not the right time for him to go to europe this was don't worry . also lone urban taking a break from their preparations ports for a worthwhile cause the alarmists see jarvey and you will and are the first team stars many youngsters who fled their homes after the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit the area last march the players also gave the children some shirts bearing the name of the new owner but after the photo call it was buying to the training ground for the other side claim a trophy the first one two years ago. the only ones have been reaching out to those in need for malaysians intervenes adana rinaldo have also been doing their part playing and i managed to find poverty and humbug with the majority of funds going to help to put a stop to the ongoing food crisis in the horn of africa so there is an important message the message is to say that it's complicated there are places in the world

in africa where it's difficult but there are projects which are being put into effect and it's about sparing a thought for those people i decided when i made a commitment to be unesco ambassador do certain things and today was part of that. it's very important to me as gearing come breathing assistance to the people who need it the most and especially on these day to work is the end of the year and at a time when there are a lot of this liberation throughout the world to remember that there is a lot of other places we're going to go to solve all the back in action following the tragedy of a warrant for entire ice hockey team three months ago in their opening match what are the odds men destroyed by visiting and if janet five one one calls that have witnessed the rebirth of the real women. it was a true celebration one that brought not only tears of joy but sorrow as well three

months ago residents of jaroslava set their final goodbyes to the players and staff . who perished on their some of the most horrifying of circumstances but december the twelfth marked the beginning of a new era for the club and particularly just the truly great team and the men who will forever remain unknown. youngsters who are on the ice to going for more victories and. images of the players who are no longer with us prompted a standing ovation from the capacity crowd in the arena two thousand tickets for the opener sold out within hours self release ice hockey gear islam has always been a family affair and the tragedy affected everyone young and old people i remember windows a crying all the time and i would contradict my saying don't cry and that goes on but then i went to bed i began to cry myself it was really hard to look once you've started over a step below the cage in the year range and higher hockey league no one in russia

has that d.h.l. all but two days players and jaroslav have up to now being a part of the local which is what i would say yes junior team in the n.h.l. with players up to twenty one years of age so this match against in the leader if jonny became a debut for them as official looking at the players and also at passage into adult ice hockey. i was nervous at the first drop of the puck i knew the level of my team within the m.h.l. but it was hard to fully comprehend how we would look in the viejo. comprised of boys who played in a youth tournament just last week so naturally it was nerve wracking but thank god we did really well the head coach was being modest about the really well part because looking at the completely destroyed last year's b.h.l. finalist five one it's hard to tell who was. happier on the night the fans that went into a frenzy after each goal or the players who got the necessary psychological boost

in their very first test one thing is certain though both groups felt personal responsibility for the revival of their beloved city. but i want to thank the fans once again and i'm sure the entire look. continue thanking the supporters in the future as well. and i hope that my boys will earn the respect of the fans by displaying their best at each much as the next day after the opening match and if you players have already left to join the russian national junior team which is preparing for the world cup the rest of this though is working hard at keeping up the process of returning looking the key to the summit of russian ice hockey. taking it a step at a time and first of all we have to build a very strong team into the right written and start winning matches. counseled the primary goal of qualifying for the playoffs. and of course. it seems like these young men have become wise adults overnight no one is making

claims it's all this season but rather it's all about becoming a single unit every team their city and country will be proud off. on the road it's impossible to play without mistakes but i think more in sync with each match think we're playing pretty well now we're trying not to think about the question posed we're just trying to play the best we can and win every game. at times it feels like still in a state of mourning three months after the tragedy struck russian i saw a cue ball pain and suffering have subsided during the. opening match as the sold out arena to thousands as the birth of a new. artsy. russian m.m.a. legend field will be hoping to win the year with a second straight victory after he announced he'll be taking on the judo expert suppose she is she on new year's eve in japan thirty five year old that is the

point losing spreed up to beating jeff unanimous points decision on the lead of the twentieth here in moscow now preparing for a showdown with a two thousand and eight olympic judo champion. twenty four year old japanese was only fourteen six pints in the mixed martial arts discipline winning or losing one and drawing the other however he's likely to face his toughest test yet it's the last emperor in japan. for the most anticipated of bossing balances once again put on hold for the weight champion cause chosen to defend his w.b.c. belt against david. instead of third of brits and david payne. just sort of mind she's scheduled to play a place in the german city of munich is going to be eighteen for t.v. ukrainian this thirteen years older than his opponents last month. and plans to retire opt for another to find possible some

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