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days. has been stuck at the border over twenty four hours trucks with essential supplies . from moving further into northern kosovo. as the u.s. counts down to withdrawal of the troops within iraq now it should be by the end of the year we talked to one of the original of the iraq invasion that's right now. 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 that will succeed i'm rather doubtful that 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 to build the 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 to 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 and of course not they're going to say you see 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 that 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 i've. we would leave it be too dangerous to attack if he 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 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 it 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 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 he nations but 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 know you really are saying that we should encourage astronomical law and military means. not like in iraq no iraq we went into iraq not to establish 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 said on 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 can wes's well i don't know who's 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. so max would see 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 countries 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 or makes you hate are you 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 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 know you are and man of mass destruction how do you deal with situations like that you must have come across things like that we often in the past well it's

very unpleasant to what can you do i understand the mother's grief so. i mean i'm not angry about it i understand it but it's unpleasant thank you for the avis or your welcome. culture is the same of charcoal for you no longer any form of the muslim world cup games of suppression radiation these all powerful financial bullies for profit or necessary evils watching governments and companies i mean grossly stumbled. on. to be a. movie

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motion to be soo much brighter if you will about some move from place to crash and some of. these food stamps on t.v. don't come. the headlines on our t.v. and the notoriously u.s. security contractor blackwater has undergone another rebranding class to return to iraq among other companies hoping to cash in on the country's uncertain future now called economy blackwater was previously banned from iraq over allegations of killings of the is. the birthplace of libya's a rebellion reaches a boiling point i guess as thousands of people in benghazi have been out on the streets for three days now they're protesting against the new government and the secrecy surrounding it. and a russian convoy carrying humanitarian aid to kosovo has been stuck at the border

for over twenty four hours the trucks with essential supplies were stopped by e.u. police a move that moscow says is a clear sign of the e.u. exceeding its. time for sporting news now joins us next. i don't like the discourse that's coming up. top of the table bottle a lot of my teeth go to the left with both sides i mean to a group palin has nineteen places are set to decide to leave not. first that opens at sundance creates a japanese five day so five want to set up a pub the world cup final against either the side. giants barcelona. and biting back look at what we are all slobbered begin to rebuild after

a five one second to victory just three months after the plane crash that killed the entire sport. but first a football and injured captain dimitri last golf will cheer on his luck a lot of moscow team from the sidelines as the russian club looks for a big victory a belgian side to pick their opponents and win group this wednesday she rates believe battles the thirty seven year old midfielder is a lot of the absentee of the russian side now a fortnight into their three months going to break leaders and the lights are aiming to finish the group with a perfect record and are the only team to have won all their matches so far lotsa luck o. can win the group if they are better the earlier two no defeat they suffered two and a leg in moscow with that avoid being drawn in the knockout round against pop such as match the city and manchester united and drove into the competition from the champions league meanwhile on the left have lost the last two league games. and in the meantime sporting lisbon have already qualified for the knockout stages as

group d. winners because they travel to lot c.-o. the italian side are covered in third and must get a better result than second place you are at the bottom got zurich as the remaining team have a better head to head record so even the win for a lot so might not be enough. i'm also expecting paris and jim are in a similar position to once you know the french enjoy this host athletic bilbao who have already won great test however p.s.g. have a formidable home record there on an eighteen match unbeaten run in european competitions about their balls but even if they managed to get all three points the french outfit still failed to qualify as they have their head to head record against second by salzburg but i'm not giving up. that's going to go over to the europa league title is still part of the object of so because we're still in the competition it's true that our fate is no longer you know but the goal is to win and then wait for a little bit of luck to go all over england follower also looking to book their

place in the round of thirty two and martin goals men do at least have their destiny in their own hands if the london side to reach the final in twenty ten managed to win at home to a group case bottom side and then they will go through to the knockout stages however taking nothing for granted. they had a the best campaign in but at the same time have called it to her to meet him so that's why we have to be a top of a game and. i'm sure we're going to be there tomorrow we're going to be on the top of the game in perth and get three points but we are fully aware what they can do but at the same time on paper we are by the side and we should win tomorrow. while over in japan brazil's teenage striker name on has moved one step closer to his dream of playing against barcelona after his son breezed into the final of the fifa top while cup in japan the nineteen year old school of the opener in their three one win over local champions question where i saw some nifty footwork from him

build up to the nineteenth when it strike however just that it's a veteran at thirty one almost it was f.a. to be sure his own just five minutes later. back i gave the parties and home crowd a reason to celebrate soon after the interval too long but his head was not enough as that he lived with the silver he was moving to porto next year completed the route for santos with guests and of a cracker with field occurring in a classy free kick just after the hour some dos will meet either boss or qatari side our side in the final after they play the other last four encounter hope thursday. so little messing go have been put through their paces by coach have guardiola in your home and that's the city where they let the title slip through their fingers back in two thousand and six they've made amends since though by capturing the trophy in abu dhabi two years ago so when the end of year tournament again is the players' pipe dream both motivation and momentum seem to be in place

and beat out rivals real madrid three one last week want to keep up their winning ways every japan. believes is the passion now your focus would descend and you know . and tomorrow we're going to talk. with the players how is the levelling side to win the prepares british for she will do two to arrive to achieve the final. but before that north american champions monterrey games the upper hand over to new zealand side as their own in the battle for first place after a lackluster african club finally broke the deadlock through joining but the strikers do. we were short lived as one train maybe four square and just eight minutes later my speed i guarantee a month here on me and finally now the cries of i'm to have everything to lead out of the negatives nodding in the corner right before the break two was a sponsor proved especially vulnerable to the aerial bolt as i'm now the head just

off to the east on twenty three one to the conduct of champions his use of aleph which means that one is crosswords throwing a lifeline midway through the second half college when the jury from voting on the penalty spot. us but failed to gain any woman benson and three to someone's right was how it finished was the same with football and legends and it is a down on one elbow 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 for some there is an important message for the message is to say that it's complicated there are places in the world in africa where it's difficult for them all but there are projects which of being loaded into a factory with them and it's about sparing others or to those people who i decided when i made a commitment to be unesco ambassador to do certain things but going into day was part of that you know it's very important to me caring calm breathing assistance to

the people who need it the most and especially on these day to the worst mantle a year and at a time when there are a lot a celebration throughout the world you have to remember that there is a lot of border to him other places. now to i saw like a lot of you are sol have made a winning return to the ice just three months after the plane crash that killed their entire squad there were no i meant one five wanted in the second as the three time russian champions looked to rebuild their club rowing cos arrest records. 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 on their some of the most horrifying of circumstances but december the twelfth marked the beginning of a new era for the club but particularly just in the last a truly great team and the men who died will forever remain unknown. youngsters who are on the ice today

looking for more victories for locomotives a stunning. 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 dearest love has always been a family affair and the tragedy affected everyone young and old. i remember windows are crying all the time and i would contradict them by saying don't cry live goes on but then i went to bed i began to cry myself it was really hard to look and say 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 to 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 leader of jonny became a debut for them as official looking at the players and also

a passage into adult ice hockey career 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. 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 d.h.l. finalist five one it's hard to sell 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 lokomotiv organization will continue thanking the supporters in the future as well as we know how much he means to the residents . and i hope that my boys will earn the respect of the fans by displaying their

best of each much at times it feels like he's 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 two thousand as the birth of a new. artsy. and in the meantime also a senator's ford nikita philosophers agreed to join said scott moscow for the third time for the rest of the k h l season which runs you on your all has so far failed to make an impact in the n.h.l. there were high hopes for the muscovites when he was drafted number six by the columbus blue jackets in two thousand and eight however the forward is i only managed six goals in forty four for instance in north america a lot of says he plans to return to the u.s. when occasional season finishes but for now to start looking for him to bring in the goals this is probably all men on the team to see a play off place. and finally russian m.m.a.

legend still though you will be hoping to end the year with a second straight victory after he announced he'll take on judo experts at. new year's eve in japan the thirty five year old ended his three fight losing streak after beating jeff monson by a unanimous decision on nov twentieth three months ago and he's now preparing for a showdown in two thousand and eight and if you can get champion in the time the four year old japanese has only forty six bouts of mixed martial arts training for losing one straw in the other however he's likely to face his toughest test yet against the last emperor in japan. and that's when sports news bison.