here in the russian capital. a notorious u.s. security. has undergone another rebranding to return to iraq. troops. from iraq but allegations of. thousands of people in. the streets for three days protesting. the

secrecy surrounding it. and the russian convoy carrying humanitarian aid. for moving into the north of kosovo. it's a purely political. but as the u.s. a countdown to withdrawal of all of us troops from iraq within weeks now we talked to one of the original of the invasion that discussion is now. 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 regard to iraq could we see another case for war being built against iran will the united states now is hopin 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 that will succeed i'm rather doubtful that we'll succeed here speculating on intentions as 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 make 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. is involved in 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're 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 yeah 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 lay 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 them at 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 i've. 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 the 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 the 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 effectively and that's the tragedy of 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 you were you move you really are saying that we should encourage us in an audible way a 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 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 said on who's saying 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's 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. some acts of violence in the 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 us 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 your 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 alternative 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 u.s. 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 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 a.b.'s are. you're welcome. on. the a. news.

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trucks with essential supplies by police from moving further in the course of. political. action from the well that sports now. thank you rory hello and welcome to the latest sports updates and top stories top of the table battle lokomotiv going to under the lights with both sides aiming to win bluebell as nineteen places will be decided to break the league knockout phase . meanwhile lost four sons also beaten japanese side race so in a freefall club world cup set the pace either barcelona or qatar alcide in the final. and fighting back to look a lot of jaroslav will begin to rebuild with

a five one second to victory just three months after the plane crash that killed the entire school. but first a football and injured captain dimitri last golf will cheer on his lot of moscow team from the sidelines as the russian club looks very big victory a belgian side and elects to pick their opponents and win group in this wednesday she regularly battles the thirty seven year old midfielder is la coste only absentee with the russian side now a fortnight into their three month winter break leaders and elect are aiming to finish the group with a perfect record and are the only team to have one although much is so far but luck oaken win the group if they better the earlier today will defeat they suffered to end like the moscow like zero would that avoid being drawn in the knockout round against clubs such as lunch to city and manchester united were dropped into the competition from the champions league well meanwhile anderlecht have lost their last two league games. time sporting lisbon have already qualified for the doc at stages as group d. winners as they travelled a lot c.-o.

the italian side of currently third and must get a better result than second place or a bottom club zurich as the remaining team have a better head to head record so even though wins the last show might not be enough . meantime big spending resigned from our in similar a. positions last year the french jointly view does host athletic bilbao who have already won group however p.s.g. have a formidable home record there on an eighteen match unbeaten run in competitions of the part their phones but even if they managed to get all three points the french outfit could still fail to qualify as they have an inferior head to head record against second place salzburg. while everything from them are also looking to play to book at their place in the round of thirty two and martin yells men do at least have their destiny in their own hands if the london side here reach the final in twenty ten managed to win at home to a group case bottom side at dens that they will go through to the knockout stages

however and not taking anything for granted. they had a the best campaign in but at same time they have called it to her then a team so that's why we have to be on top of a game and. i'm sure we're going to be there tomorrow we're going to be in the top of the game in perth and get three points but before we are what they can do but at same time on paper we are better side and we should win tomorrow. staying with football and brazilian star striker neymar has moved closer to his dream of playing against barcelona after his side sometimes breezed into the final of the fee for world club in japan the nineteen year old name on live from the scoring in their three one win over local champions race sold. the silver who is moving to porto next year completed the rash some tall stories are the boss of all qatari side to play in the other semifinal on thursday. once before that north american champions monterrey games the upper hand over to museum side esperance in

a battle for fifth place all three let loss to half an hour on the african club finally broke the deadlock yannick. but the strike is drawing to short lived as monterey made it all square just eight minutes later after twice being denied a guarantee of luck here amir finding out the equaliser and i very soon took the lead out there than it is nodding in a corner right before the break as bronze proved especially vulnerable to the aerial ball as another header just after the restart made it three want to the conduct of champions his use of allah finishing from one zero as bronze was thrown a lifeline redress through the second half really julie converting the penalty spot . but i felt again any more of a mentor and three two to monterrey was how we'd finished. ahead of the main course a lot and i have been taking a break from their preparations for thursday's semi final but all for a worthwhile cause leaving messy shabby colors who we are and other first year

stars but youngsters who fled their homes after the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit the country last march the players also gave the children's and boss a football shirt each bearing the name of the new owner but after the photo call it was back to training for that garden. and to reclaim the trophy they first won two years ago possibly out rivals real madrid three one last week and one would want to keep up their winning ways. well it is the past so now we are focused on the percent. tomorrow we're going to talk. with the players i was eleven when the preparers business possible due to arrive to achieve the final. are all the only footballers who have been helping those in need legends and it is a down under now they have taken part in a charity football match in hamburg with the majority of the funds going to the horn of africa to help stop the region's ongoing food crisis 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 you know asco ambassador to do certain things and today was part of that. it's very important to me is caring can bring assistance to the people who need it the most and especially on these days the worst band of the year and at a time when there are a lot of celebrations throughout the world to remember that there is a lot of poor to him other places. we are several have made a winning return to the ice to stray months off of the plane crash that killed our entire squad there i meant one five one at home to the second as a three time russian champions not to rebuild. reports. 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. who perished under some of the most horrifying of circumstances but december the twelfth marked the beginning of a new era for the club in particular just which we lost a truly great team and the man 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 in your us love has always been a family affair and the tragedy affected everyone young and old even though i remember windows are crying all the time and i would calm her down by saying please don't cry live goes on but that i went to bat i began to cry myself it was really hard looking at the you've started over

a step below the cage shelf in the eurasian higher hockey league no one in russia as the d.h.l. all but two of today's players and jaroslav have up to now being a part of the local which is what one sees junior team in the n.h.l. with players up to twenty one years of age so this match against in the glitter of johnny cash became a debut for them as official looking at the players and also a 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 v. 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 be modest about the really well part because looking at the completely destroyed last year's 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 an agent 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 at each much at times it feels like though you're still always still in a state of mourning three months after the tragedy struck the russian i saw your wall of pain and suffering have subsided during looking at cvs opening match as the sold out arena two thousand witnessed the birth of a new ice hockey it's a remark offer of artsy. comments on the case of philosophers agreed to join tesco moscow for the rest of the catch all season he also assesses forward resting surface requirements at the n.h.l. club and has now decided to return for a third stint in the army when the twenty one year old has failed to make an impact

so far in the n.h.l. there are high hopes for the moscow native when he was drafted number six by the columbus blue jackets in two thousand and eight however the forward has only managed six goals in forty four appearances in north america a lot of says he plans to return stateside and the reason finishes but for them i was to scout will be looking for him to bang in the goals as they are meant to sail a play off place. and finally russian m.m.a. legend field though you will be hoping to end the year with a second straight victory after he announced her take on judo expert is she on new year's eve in japan was eighty five year old ended his three fight losing streak after beating jeff monson by a unanimous decision on the event of the twentieth here in moscow and he's now preparing for a showdown with the two thousand and eight olympic judo champion the twenty four year old japanese has only fourteen sixpence of mixed martial arts winning four losing one during the other however he's likely to face his toughest test yet

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