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the eurozone faces the very real prospect of falling flat on its face that will have to persuade euro skeptic britain to cough up for a new why the bailout through the i.m.f. . back into iraq in for most most americans many undergoes a rebranding facelift all in an effort to erase its history and cash in on the country's uncertain future. now as the u.s. counts down to the withdrawal of its troops from iraq within weeks now we talked to one of the original architects of the information that is next. we're sitting down with one of the most controversial figures in the west politics he was existent to secretary of defense under president reagan he was karen of the defense policy board and a 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 regards 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. and 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 the that will succeed i'm rather doubtful that it will succeed there 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 it rich in 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. 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. of the ideas that they behind it 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 them at the moment that the cia believed he did what if the guy pushed the button right it's death and knew that he had nothing. 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 man 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 there's 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're 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 weapon 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 have an inability 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 that 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 he 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 you were you move you really are saying that we should encourage instead of an audible layer of 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 over with that's the question iraq has a world to be sure and if we need oil from iraq we'll buy it and 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 and you're saying russia is hated in the muslim world as much as they queue wes's well i don't know who is hated more i know that 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 since 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 alternative it 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 us 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 well 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 for the avis or. you're welcome. some of the

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. into iraq the infamous mercenary company undergoes a. facelift in an effort to or race its history and cash in on the country's uncertain future. part time now for the sporting news with richard. hello welcome to source of a great to have you with us and stop. talking being talked about so you've got time for legs with both sides aiming to win group unavoidable lunch the club's europa league will have face. why no hurdle some sausage making on the show or a soul in the world cup as we speak the win is also not. in the final. we look at the problem i see the. first month since the deadly plane crash i want

to have the whole team. but first a football and tons of money can tend to be the last call for the fight injury and trouble with the squad to the belgian side and a leg for wednesday's battle at the side of the group winners in the europa league the thirty seven year old midfielder is locals only don't want for injury the russian side now afford minds of a free month winter break leaders on the legs are aiming to finish the group of a perfect record the only team to have won all the matches so far for the loco can win the group if they had better be earlier to know the feat of a suffered wunderlich to moscow on a local avoid being drawn in the knockout round against clubs such as much to city amongst united to drop into competition in the champions league meanwhile i'm the legs i've lost the last two league games. are all elsewhere in the europa league sporting lisbon have the luxury ready haven't qualified for the knockout stages so they entertain lancero the portuguese thirds have also won their group and could

end their opponents' hopes of making the round of third to italian side currently set third in the group must better pull rivals results to be in with a chance of qualifying as the remaining team her. better head to head record so even a win for lance may not be enough. for a big spending. or in a similar situation to lance ito aside from the french capital or inaction. have already secured their place as group winners our peers gee they have a formidable home record eighteen unbeaten run in european competitions and a part of france but even if they manage to get all three points against spanish opponents the french outfit still won't qualify as having inferior record against group rivals salzburg also have seven points. for the mother also looking to put their place in the round of thirty two however martin yells men do have their own

destiny in their own hands a lot of those managed to beat the bottom side and then sit home but two thousand and ten finalists will move through to the knockout stages. meanwhile the semi final stage of a free for world club camp on wednesday was some false looking to become the competition's first finalists as paid take on. that much is on the way and played around with the minutes so far it's still goalless a winner old need to be the boss alone are all the qatari side. played in the second semifinal. have been taking a break from their preparations parts for a worthwhile cause. and qualify for you all a number of first team stars make youngsters from their homes with devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit the area last march the players also gave the children some bars of football shirts each bearing the name of the new owner but after the photo call it was back to the training ground for regular the side as

they aim to reclaim the trophy they first won two years ago. the only ones have been reaching out to those in need for malaysians and indians and on and ronaldo have also been doing that potts playing in a match to fight poverty in hamburg majority of the funds going to help put a stop to the ongoing food crisis in the horn of africa to me 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 is 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 in the day was part of that . it's very important to me is caring completing assistance to the people who need it the most and especially on these day to worse the end of the year and at a time when the royal tourists liberations go throughout the world you have to remember that there is a lot of you know other places. well the committee got

a solid back in action following the tragedy of it killed their entire ice hockey is called free months ago and they're opening much of our bills man crush the visiting nifty fifty five one on cause i've witnessed the rebirth of a row when. it was a true celebration one that brought not only tears of joy but sorrow as well three months ago residents of jaroslava said their final goodbyes to the players and staff of look and see who perished under some of the most horrifying of circumstances but december the twelfth marked the beginning of a new era for the club but you know we just we lost a truly great team and the men who died will forever remain unknown but we all hope the youngsters who are on the ice today will bring more victories and locomotives. 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 of release ice hockey gear a slow has always been a family affair and the tragedy affected everyone young and old even though i remember windows a crying all the time and i would calm her down by saying please don't cry and live goes on but then i went to bed i began to cry myself it was really hard. well look i'm a thief started over a step below the cage in the eurasian higher hockey league known in russia as the d.h.l. all but two states players and jaroslav have up to now being a part of 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 of johnny 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 as he completely destroyed last year's d.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 with anything but i want to thank the fans once again and i'm sure the entire lokomotiv organization will continue thanking the supporters in the future as well we know how much hokie means to the residents. and i hope that my boys will earn the respect of the fans by displaying their best to each much as the next day after the opening match and if you players have already left jaroslava to join the russian national junior team which is preparing for the world cup the rest of the squad though is working hard

at keeping up the process of returning looking at sea 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 get into the right written and start winning matches. no one has counseled the primary goal of qualifying for the playoffs. getting as far as possible there and of course when the league title it seems like these young men have become wise adults overnight no one is making claims of winning it all this season but rather talking about becoming a single unit a real team their city and country will be proud off the amount of fun it's impossible to play with mistakes but i think the tune will be moving soon with each match think we're playing pretty well now we're trying not to think about the question posed in those who are 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 committee opening match as the sold out arena two thousand and witnessed the birth of a new ice hockey team from on-call sort of artsy. for a lot of us agreed to join sanskrit moscow for the rest of the cage all season he also sentences forward. to requirements of the n.h.l. club has now decided to return for a third students were beyond the twenty one year old failed to make much of an impact so far in the n.h.l. although high hopes of a moscow native when he was drafted number six spot a columbus blue jackets back in two thousand and eight however forward has only managed six goals and forty four appearances in north america hopeful also says he plans to return stateside when the page file season finishes but for the moment. will be looking for him to bring in the goals of the album and look to seal a play off place. well now a russian m.m.a.

legend fielder will be hoping to win the year with a second straight victory after he announced that he'll be taking on the judo expert subtle she is she on new year's eve in japan thirty five year old and he's losing streak after beating just one son by unanimous decision in the november twentieth here in moscow and now he's preparing for a showdown with the two thousand and eight olympic judo champion each twenty four year old japanese was only fourteen six pilots. spinning for losing one drawing the other how are these likely to face his toughest test yet against the last emperor in japan. the most anticipated seeing violence once again been put on hold as heavyweight champion vitaly klitschko has chosen to play in his w b c belt. instead of fellow briton david haye the klitschko versus just sort of man she is scheduled to take place in the german city of munich if you're even eighteenth

for c.v. ukrainian thirteen years older than his opponents last month klitschko has said he plans to retire after another to find. showdown with pace could be his swan song. scape partridge will be here on two hours time to bring it over late and see whether it's coming up next.